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unusual facts about Drummer boy



Kingsley, Pennsylvania

He fought in the Battle of Bunker Hill, just outside Boston, at the age of thirteen as a drummer boy.


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History of Costa Rica

Juan Santamaría, a drummer boy from Alajuela who lost his life torching the filibusters' stronghold, was killed in this final battle, and is today remembered as a national hero.

Marie-Thérèse Figueur

By her own account, she was not initially a supporter of the French Revolution; her uncle was a firm if discreet royalist, and she feared her best friend, a drummer-boy in the Swiss Guard, had been killed during the overthrow of the monarchy.