The Battle Of Bunker Hill

The Battle of Bunker Hill, June 17, 1775.The colonists took the hill on the Charlestown peninsula, to retake the hills Lord William Howe ordered a frontal assault in the middle of the day, the British soldiers were carrying heavy backpacks and wore red coats while the colonists where trenched in the hill. After both frontal assaults from the British failed, Howe took the hill with the third charge only because the Patriots ran out of ammunition.

The commander wanted to prove that trained men where invincible against a big rabble. Even though the British won the battle, the had suffered a big amount of casualties.The Patriots psychologically won the battle than day, they had killed over 225 soldiers and wounded over 800.The British should have proceeded with an artillery bombardment but they found out that the guns where supplied with the wrong ammunition .