USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The British won the Battle of Bunker Hill. Often obscured by the moral victory earned by the patriots is that they ultimately lost the military battle. After the colonial militiamen repelled the first two British assaults, they ran out of ammunition during the third attack and were forced to abandon their redoubt.

Detailed explanation-2: -The American patriots were defeated at the Battle of Bunker Hill, but they proved they could hold their own against the superior British Army. The fierce fight confirmed that any reconciliation between England and her American colonies was no longer possible.

Detailed explanation-3: -On June 17, 1775, New England soldiers faced the British army for the first time in a pitched battle. Popularly known as “The Battle of Bunker Hill, ” bloody fighting took place throughout a hilly landscape of fenced pastures that were situated across the Charles River from Boston.

Detailed explanation-4: -Pitting 2, 200 British troops against a varying number of Provincial (colonial) troops led by Colonel William Prescott, it would become one of the bloodiest battles of the American Revolution. Over 1, 000 British soldiers, officers, and Marines were killed or wounded.