Joseph Warren III (Person) AKA Martyr of Bunker Hill
Joseph Warren III
1741 AD - 1775 AD
AKA Martyr of Bunker Hill
American physician who played a leading role in Patriot organizations in Boston during the early days of the American Revolution, eventually serving as President of the revolutionary Massachusetts Provincial Congress.
Warren enlisted Paul Revere and William Dawes on April 18, 1775, to leave Boston and spread the alarm that the British garrison in Boston was setting out to raid the town of Concord and arrest rebel leaders John Hancock and Samuel Adams.
Legacy
- Statues: at least four statues of Joseph Warren on public display. Three in Bostonand one is in a small park on the corner of Third and Pennsylvania avenues in Warren, Pennsylvania, a city, borough, and county all named after the general.
- Counties: Fourteen states have a Warren County (list) named after him. The New York county of Warren is named after him, but the town of Warrensburg within that county is not; the town is in fact named after James Warren, a prominent early settler.
- Cities:, Warren, Pennsylvania; Warren, Michigan; Warren, New Jersey; Warrenton, Missouri; Warrenton, Virginia; Warren, Maine; Warren, Massachusetts; Warrenton, North Carolina; Warren, Connecticut and 30 Warren Townships are also named in his honor.
- The streets of Detroit, Michigan, were redesigned after the 1806 fire, based on the Pierre L'Enfant Plan for Washington, D.C.; Warren Avenue in Detroit is named after Joseph Warren.
- The first Warren School was built on Salem Street in Charlestown, Massachusetts near Bunker Hill. It relocated to School and Summer Streets in 1868, and later merged with the Prescott School to form the Warren-Prescott School
- Fort Warren on George's Island in Boston harbor
- Five ships in the Continental Navy and United States Navy were named Warren in his honor.
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09/06/1764 AD
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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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