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Title: The Minute Boys of Boston

Author: James Otis

Illustrator: L. J. Brideman

Release Date: June 7, 2010 [EBook #32723]

Language: English

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THE MINUTE BOYS OF BOSTON

AMERICAN HISTORY STORIES FOR BOYS

THE MINUTE BOY SERIES

By Edward Stratemeyer and James Otis

The Minute Boys of Lexington
The Minute Boys of Bunker Hill
The Minute Boys of the Green Mountains
The Minute Boys of the Mohawk Valley
The Minute Boys of the Wyoming Valley

THE MEXICAN WAR SERIES

By Capt. Ralph Bonehill

For the Liberty of Texas
With Taylor on the Rio Grande
Under Scott in Mexico

DANA ESTES & COMPANY Publishers Estes Press, Summer St., Boston

[Illustration: "AND WE DID CHECK THEM!"]

The Minute Boys of Boston

BY

JAMES OTIS

Author of "The Minute Boys of Long Island," "The Minute Boys of Wyoming
Valley," "Boys of '98," "Teddy and Carrots," "Boys of Fort Schuyler,"
"Under the Liberty Tree," etc., etc.

_Illustrated by_

L. J. BRIDGMAN

[Illustration]

BOSTON
DANA ESTES & COMPANY
PUBLISHERS

_Copyright, 1910_
BY DANA ESTES & COMPANY

_All rights reserved_

THE MINUTE BOYS OF BOSTON

_Electrotyped and Printed by_
_THE COLONIAL PRESS_
_C. H. Simonds & Co., Boston, U.S.A._

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. WHY WE WERE ENROLLED 11

II. RAISING A COMPANY 29

III. THE WAR BEGUN 48

IV. THE PRISONER 71

V. SUSPICIOUS INFORMATION 89

VI. A CLOUDY NIGHT 104

VII. THE SUMMONS 126

VIII. HOG ISLAND 144

IX. ON SPECIAL DUTY 163

X. ON BREED'S HILL 183

XI. THE RETREAT 203

XII. IN BOSTON TOWN 222

XIII.