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Photographer: Bill Coughlin
Taken: April 15, 2009
Caption: Colonel Richard Gridley Plaque
Additional Description: The defensive works on Breed’s Hill
were laid out by and constructed under
Colonel Richard Gridley
Chief Engineer New England Provincial Army

who in July 1775 was appointed by
General Washington as First Chief Engineer
of the Continental Army

Presented by Boston Post
Society of American Military Engineers
17 June 1959
Submitted: May 16, 2009, by Bill Coughlin of Woodland Park, New Jersey.
Database Locator Identification Number: p63664
File Size: 0.929 Megabytes

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