Israel Putnam

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Notable quotes

“Men, you are all marksmen — don't one of you fire until you see the white of their eyes.”
— At the Battle of Bunker Hill (June 17, 1775), reported in Richard Frothingham Jr., History of the Siege of Boston, &c. (Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1849), p. 140, footnote: "Philip Johnson states of Putnam: 'I distinctly heard him say, ...'"

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