The Greatest Revolutionary War Battles: The Battle of Bunker Hill

*Discusses some of the famous legends of the battle and whether they are accurate.
*Includes pictures of the battle's important generals.
*Includes several maps of the battle.
*Includes accounts of the fighting written by witnesses and soldiers.
*Includes a Bibliography for further reading.
*Includes a Table of Contents.

"We have... learned one melancholy truth, which is, that the Americans, if they were equally well commanded, are full as good soldiers as ours." – A British officer after the Battle of Bunker Hill

On April 19, 1775, the “shot heard ‘round the world” was fired at Lexington, officially starting the Revolutionary War between the colonists and the British Empire. Though Lexington and Concord were the scenes of the first fighting, contingency plans had been made on both sides for war, and immediately after the Battles of Lexington and Concord, the colonial militia men who had poured in from across the countryside converged on Boston, which at the time was a peninsula with a small neck attaching it to the rest of Massachusetts. With the Charles River surrounding it on three sides, Boston was an ideal city to lay siege to.

Initially, the militias blocked off the land approaches to Boston, but when 4,500 more British soldiers arrived by sea, the American forces fell back to adjacent hills on the Charlestown Peninsula, Breed's Hill and Bunker Hill. At this time, the colonists and colonial forces were still unclear of their ultimate goals; the Second Continental Congress would not formally declare independence for another year.*Discusses some of the famous legends of the battle and whether they are accurate.
*Includes pictures of the battle's important generals.
*Includes several maps of the battle.
*Includes accounts of the fighting written by witnesses and soldiers.
*Includes a Bibliography for further reading.
*Includes a Table of Contents.

"We have... learned one melancholy truth, which is, that the Americans, if they were equally well commanded, are full as good soldiers as ours." – A British officer after the Battle of Bunker Hill

On April 19, 1775, the “shot heard ‘round the world” was fired at Lexington, officially starting the Revolutionary War between the colonists and the British Empire. Though Lexington and Concord were the scenes of the first fighting, contingency plans had been made on both sides for war, and immediately after the Battles of Lexington and Concord, the colonial militia men who had poured in from across the countryside converged on Boston, which at the time was a peninsula with a small neck attaching it to the rest of Massachusetts. With the Charles River surrounding it on three sides, Boston was an ideal city to lay siege to.

Initially, the militias blocked off the land approaches to Boston, but when 4,500 more British soldiers arrived by sea, the American forces fell back to adjacent hills on the Charlestown Peninsula, Breed's Hill and Bunker Hill. At this time, the colonists and colonial forces were still unclear of their ultimate goals; the Second Continental Congress would not formally declare independence for another year.