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Marian Anderson The battle of Bunker Hill took place in Boston, Massachusetts on June 17, 1775. This battle took place because the Americans wanted to keep the British from leaving Boston. The Americans wanted to take over Boston because they wanted to get revenge over Boston for shooting them in there backs when they were retreating in Lexington. The British won against 6,500 Americans, 450 of the Americans were killed, captured or wounded. Some of the British who fought in this battle were Sir Henry Clinton, General William Howe, and 6,400 British Troops. And in the American battle there were 1,200 Massachusetts and Connecticut Troops, and George Washington. This war was a very intense battle in fact it was the bloodiest battle in the Revolutionary War. http://www.harlingen.isd.tenet.edu/coakhist/amrev.html#BATTLES The Boston massacre occurred on March 5, 1770. This wasn’t even a massacre this was an event in which a small group of colonist were tormenting the British. During this the colonist were throwing snow balls, sticks and stones at the British. The soldiers fired at the colonist which led them to kill three of them on the spot. These people who got killed were an African American sailor name Crispus Attucks rope maker Samuel Gray, and a mariner named James Calde wall. As you can see this was far from a massacre. http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/related/massacre.htm