The Battle of Bunker Hill (Breed's Hill)

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June 15-16
June 17
June 17
Patriots move forward to Breed's Hill on the Charlestown Peninsula. They prepare a fortified position.Israel Putnam (left front) and William Prescott (right front) lead the soldiers (back).
June 17
General Thomas Gage and his commanders order British soldiers to go across the Boston Harbor and prepare for battle.
June 17
General William Howe and his troops climb Breed's Hill.
Fun Facts
Because the Americans were low on ammunition, they were told "Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes."
Future President of the United States, John Quincy Adams, watched the battle from a nearby hill with his mother Abigail Adams. He was seven years old at the time.
British continue to work their way up the hill, stepping over the bodies of their dead and wounded comrades who lay “as thick as sheep in a fold".
The Patriots retreated and returned to their lines outside the perimeter of Boston.
The British suffered the most casualties of any single fight during the American Revolutionary War.
The British suffered the most casualties of any single fight during the American Revolutionary War.

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