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The Battle of Bunker Hill By: Jessenia (Lupita) Alvarez, So Yeon
Lim and Paola Pinzon
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Causes of the battle
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American Colonies
Joseph Warren (1741-1775)• A doctor and soldier• Active in Sons of Liberty• Sent Paul Revere and William Dawes on Midnight
Rides• "These fellows say we won't fight! By Heavens,
I hope I shall die up to my knees in blood!"
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American Colonies
Israel Putnam (1717-1790)• Appointed colonel of the 3rd Connecticut
Regiment• Planned battle• "Don't fire until you see the whites
of their eyes."
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American Colonies
William Prescott (1726-1795)• Led the soldiers in the battlefield.• Colonel of Pepperell company.
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Britain
William Howe (1729-1814)• Entered army at seventeen.• Ordered troops in battlefield.• Commander-in-chief of Britain until 1778.
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Britain
Thomas Gage (1720-1787)• General of Britain• Planned to take control of Charlestown peninsula
(Breed’s Hill and Bunker Hill) to attack the American colonists.
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Weapons
Musket: Flintlock:
Bayonete
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Cannons
Cannons: it took 14 soldiers to operate but a cannon could fire progectile for hundreds of yards.
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The Siege of Boston
• April 19, 1775 to March 17, 1776
• Lexington and concord • Second Continental
congress
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Olive Branch Pettition • June 3, 1775 • July 8th
• August 14th
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GEOGRAPHY • Charlestown
Peninsula
• Breeds Hill
• Bunker Hill
• Advantage of geography
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The Battles • June 15-British Plan to
occupy the Peninsula • June 16 Colonel William
Prescott arrives to “Bunker Hill”
• June 17 battle begins
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TACTICS
Presscot-breastworks
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• Howe's force arrives at 3:30 p.m. (attacked by snipers) = cannons
• Redcoats advance the hill • = Americans attack• • Piggott Vs. Stark • Howe attacks up hill = fail
First Assault
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Briti sh “Victory”
BRITISH VICTORY
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OUTCOME
• British: “the number of killed and wounded is greater than our forces can afford to loose” –Gage
• Americans: “upon the hole, I think we have little reason to complain…I wish we could sell them another hill at the same price”- Nathanael Green
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Fortification of Dorchester Heights:
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General George Washington:
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GENERAL WILLIAM HOWE:
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Colonel Henry Knox:
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