the battle of bunker hill
By: isabell sandbothe
getting ready for battle
On June 16, 1775, having learned that the British were planning to send troops from Boston to occupy the hills surrounding the city, some 1,000 colonial military men under Colonel William Prescott (1726-95) built from earth for little bases like a dug out,on top of Breed’s Hill, overlooking Boston and located on the Charleston Peninsula.
going in to battle
On June 17, some 2,200 British forces under the command of Major General William Howe and Brigadier General Robert Pigot landed on the Charleston Peninsula then marched to Breed’s Hill. As the British advanced in columns against the Americans, in an effort to conserve the Americans’ limited supply of ammunition, reportedly told his men, “Don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes!” When the Redcoats were within several dozen yards, the Americans let loose with a lethal army of musket fires, throwing the British into retreat.the battle ended on June 17 of 1783
this is the place where the battle was fought
the blue wreck tangles are the Americans and the red ones are the red cots
this is a little box diagram someone made
this ex planes the mounds of earth they fought behind vary well. the Americans would use the mounds as cover well the reloaded there guns ans weapons it also served as a good wall to protect there village.
the battle
when the battle was fought the British marched in big rows
making the people in the front vulnerable to gun fires. where as the Americans used the earth to defend them self's from the gun fires of the British