Bunker Hill!
Well, Breed’s Hill, actually.
And not really part of Boston, then. It lay across the Charles River on a peninsula that looked like an island. That is where Charlestown was established. Now it is a nice, upscale residential area with the Bunker Hill monument in the middle. The USS Constitution, “Old Ironsides” (which is really made of wood), lies in the harbor below as though it really could block another landing by the British like the one on June 17, 1775…