The Battle of Bunker Hill By: Jessenia (Lupita) Alvarez, So Yeon

Lim and Paola Pinzon

Causes of the battle

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!"

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."

American Colonies

William Prescott (1726-1795)• Led the soldiers in the battlefield.• Colonel of Pepperell company.

Britain

William Howe (1729-1814)• Entered army at seventeen.• Ordered troops in battlefield.• Commander-in-chief of Britain until 1778.

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.

Weapons

Musket: Flintlock:

Bayonete

Cannons

Cannons: it took 14 soldiers to operate but a cannon could fire progectile for hundreds of yards.

The Siege of Boston

• April 19, 1775 to March 17, 1776

• Lexington and concord • Second Continental

congress

Olive Branch Pettition • June 3, 1775 • July 8th

• August 14th

GEOGRAPHY • Charlestown

Peninsula

• Breeds Hill

• Bunker Hill

• Advantage of geography

The Battles • June 15-British Plan to

occupy the Peninsula • June 16 Colonel William

Prescott arrives to “Bunker Hill”

• June 17 battle begins

TACTICS

Presscot-breastworks

• 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

Briti sh “Victory”

BRITISH VICTORY

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

Fortification of Dorchester Heights:

General George Washington:

GENERAL WILLIAM HOWE:

Colonel Henry Knox: