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Bunker Hill Day


The Battle at Bunker's Hill near Boston Suffolk County, Massachusetts, commemorates the historic Revolutionary War battle that took place in 1775.

By the end, the British took possession of both Breedıs Hill and Bunker Hill. They had won the battle, but at a terrible cost: out of 2,200 troops, 268 British soldiers and officers had been killed; another 828 were wounded. The Americans also suffered heavy casualties with 115 killed and 305 wounded.

The British armyıs military victory at the Battle of Bunker Hill was a moral victory for the colonists, however. Colonists throughout America realized that the conflict was no longer just a rebellion of Bostonians and other Massachusetts colonists against British occupation. They had proved to themselves that, united, they had the ability and the character to confront the superior force of the British army. The cost of British victory was so great that serious doubts were raised about English leadership; many now understood that war with the colonies would be hard, long, and expensive to both sides.

Source: National Park Service. "Teaching with Historic Places—The Battle of Bunker Hill: Now We Are at War" at http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/42bunker/42bunker.htm

Pictured: John Trumbull, 1756–1843, The Battle at Bunker's Hill near Boston, n.d., engraving on paper, 5 7/8 x 8 3/8 in., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from the NMAA/NPG Library, Smithsonian Institution.