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On this day in 1775, about a thousand farmers walked onto a hill in the dark, picked up shovels, and committed one of the most audacious acts of the entire Revolution before a single shot was fired. The siege of Boston had become a waiting game. Both sides knew that whoever seized the high ground around the city would control it, and the Americans got word the British were about to grab the Charlestown peninsula. So on the night of June 16, Colonel William Prescott led roughly 1,200 men out onto that peninsula with orders to fortify Bunker Hill. Then came the decision that historians still debate two and a half centuries later. Instead of digging in on Bunker Hill as ordered, the officers pushed forward to Breed's Hill, lower and far more exposed, sitting almost in the face of the British army and the guns of the Royal Navy in the harbor below. It was either a navigational mistake or a deliberate dare. Either way, it was breathtakingly bold. What followed was a feat of nerve. Through the entire night these amateurs dug in near total silence, terrified that the sound of pick striking earth would carry across the water and bring down a bombardment before they finished. They threw up an earthen redoubt roughly 130 feet on each side, working without rest, hour after hour in the dark. When dawn broke on June 17, British officers raised their telescopes and were stunned. Overnight, the rebels they had dismissed as a disorganized rabble had built a fort staring directly down at the king's army. A British admiral's ships opened fire almost immediately. Hours later that ground became the bloodiest killing field the British would face in the whole war. But the legend was already born in the dark, in the dirt, on the night of June 16, when a thousand farmers decided to dig.

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