Celebration of the One Hundred and Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of the Evacuation of Boston by the British Army, March 17, 1901 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Celebration of the One Hundred and Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of the Evacuation of Boston by the British Army, March 17, 1901After a number of meetings the committee decided that the most effective way of observing the day was by the distribution to the school children throughout the whole city of souvenir medals, and a parade and local celebration in South Boston, whose citizens claimed a particular interest in the day, as being the district in which was located Dorchester Heights, the site of the fortifications which compelled the evacuation.This program was approved by the Mayor, and accordingly one hundred thousand medals, the reverse being a copy of the medal presented by Congress to General Washington on the Evacuation of Boston, and the obverse containing a wreath and the inscription Souvenir 125th Anniversary Evacuation Day, Boston, Mass, were distributed to all the school children in the City of Boston, and to many older persons who desired them as a memento of the occasion.The local celebration consisted of a parade, illumination of the principal streets in South Boston, artillery salute on Dor chester Heights, athletic games on M-street playground, and a band concert and fireworks display at Marine park.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.