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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