Simpsons1++Naval+War

===|| On june 17th 1775 it was the battle of bunker hill.[|] || || || TheBattle at Bunker Hill was a moral victory for the colonists. || || || Colonial forces dug difencive trenches atop nearby Bunker Hill and Breed Hill ||  || || Shortly after the Battle at Bunker Hill, General Washington arived to commaned the Contenental armys siege of Boston ||  || || The Battle at Bunker Hill started because they[british] were figthing on Bunker Hill. || || || British forces over ran the revolutionaries fortified earthworks on Breed and Bunker Hill. || || || 140 people died, 271 were wounded, and 30 people were captured. || || || On the night of June 16-17, American Colonel William Prescott led 1,500 men onto the peninsula. || || || The British attacked the hilltop on three separate charges, with one coming as close as forty yards before the patriots opened fire. || || || Though the British won, about 1,000 redcoats were killed and, that was the end of the bunker hill attack! || || The Battle at BUNKER HILL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!===

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