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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.
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  • 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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