Alexandria Gazette & Daily Advertiser

From the Boston Patriot.

BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL.

This day, 17th of June, completes the 43d year since the Battle of Bunker Hill; a celebrated epoch in the annals of our glorious Revolution, when the sons of America determined to be free or perish in the attempt. The vassal troops of George the 3d with Gage at their head were sent to enslave us, it being what George had planned, and what his corrupt ministry had been for years endeavoring to accomplish--In vain their efforts; although a young people, "just in the gristle," our cause was the cause of freemen. The God of armies was with us, the result was auspicious. By reference to the accounts published in the Cambridge, (Mass.) papers, of the battle, it states, "That from sun-set on the day of Battle, until next morning, wounded regulars were brought over in boats to Boston, (then held by the British) to the amount of at least 500; that thirty died before they had arrived at the hospital; that eighty-four officers were killed and wounded, three of which were field officers, and that the whole killed and wounded amounted to thirteen or fourteen hundred. The loss on our side from one hundred and fifty to two hundred killed and wounded."

Gage in his official letter to the British ministry, observes,"The appearance of the Americans' strength, and the large columns seen pouring in to their assistance, occasioned an application for the troops to be reinforced with some companies of light infantry and grenadiers the whole when in conjunction, making a body of something over two thousand men, which were landed on the peninsula of Charlestown without opposition, under the protection of some ships of war, armed vessels and boats, by whose fire the Americans were kept within their works. The loss the Americans sustained must have been considerable, from the great numbers they carried off during the action. Near one hundred were buried the day after, and thirty found wounded in the field. I enclose a return of the killed and wounded, (here follows particulars) making a total of one lieutenant colonel, two majors, seven captains, nine lieutenants, fifteen sergeants, one drummer, one hundred and ninety-one rank and file--killed. Three majors, twenty-seven captains, thirty-two lieutenants, eight ensigns, forty sergeants, twelve drummers, seven hundred and six rank and file--wounded."