ep27 Five Men Swindled

I have noted men are swindled by two uneducated miners. A man buys a few dollars worth of brass for three thousand dollars. The Battle of Bunker Hill never occurred. Can you imagine that? Yes, ladies and gentlemen, this is Lindsay McCarry back again with another assortment of odd facts and news items for which to regale you for the next few moments.

Until we return to prove those statements, we hope you'll wait around for us just a moment or two, will you? Thank you. Can you imagine this? Listen.

The Battle of Bunker Hill never occurred. And that is correct. The Battle of Bunker Hill never occurred. Why? Well, the fact is that during the War of the American Revolution, on the evening of June 16, 1775, colonial forces under the command of Major General Israel Putnam and Colonel William Prescott started to entrench on an elevation north of Boston known as Bunker Hill.

But probably because the soil was hard and unmanageable, they're retired to another hill known as Breeds Hill. And there they dug in their trenches and waited for the British forces under the command of General Thomas Gage. At length the two armies met with considerable loss on both sides, not on Bunker Hill, but on Breeds Hill, and so today the famed Bunker

Hill monument is really completely misnamed. Well, here's a very interesting story that proves how the first flush of an exciting discovery may blind everyone to the use of common ordinary horse sense. It was in the summer of 1871, a two-tan leathery skin prospector showed up at the bank of California in San Francisco.

Slouching up to the tellers window, the spokesman for the two prospectors asked, Hey, me and my partner here, he'd like to know if we could store sort of a cash way some valuable's in this year bank.