Breed's Hill Institute
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Breed's Hill Institute, founded by Dan Shippey, is a non-profit historical organization based in Orange, California, that provides content about the American Revolution.[1][2] The organization, founded in 2005,[3] seeks to inform about the reasons for the revolution and to clarify historical inaccuracies.[1] More specifically, it "fosters discovery of the revolutionary ideas of the American founding through entertainment, education, and community projects."[4]
The institute is named after Breed's Hill, a hill in the Boston neighborhood of Charlestown, Massachusetts, where the fighting attributed to Bunker Hill was conducted.[1][5] The patriots first positioned themselves on Bunker Hill, but realized that they were at a strategic advantage by fighting on Breed's Hill, where they were closer to British positions on land and to target warships in the harbor.[6] A plaque at the Bunker Hill Monument, a National Park, mentions Breed's Hill and the National Park Service uses the hashtag #BreedsHillNotBunkerHill in some of its social media posts.[1] The discrepancy is a subject in the book Wicked Pissed: New England's Most Famous Feuds by Ted Reinstein, a Boston reporter.[1]
Myths
They explore topics such as what percentage of the colonists were loyal to the British government and monarchy in "The One Third Myth".[7]
See also
- Elizabeth Burgin, the subject of The Great Raid about the release of more than 200 patriot prisoners of war from prison ships in New York Harbor