Warren (right) offering to serve General Israel Putnam as a private before the Battle of Bunker Hill — In the moments before the battlel, Major General Warren arrives and volunteers to join the fighting as a private where the heaviest fighting would be -- against the wishes of General Putnam and Colonel Prescott, both of whom requested that he serve as their commander. Warren declines command in the belief that Putnam and Prescott were more experienced.
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