History of the United States I / Unit 6 USH1 0753 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Bunker Hill
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The idea
On June seventeenth, seventeen seventy-five, three British assaults took Breed's Hill and Bunker Hill, at a cost the anchor calls very high.
In practice
Over two hundred British killed and eight hundred wounded.
Where people slip
Despite holding the field, Gage could not break the siege of Boston. Winning the ground and winning the war are separate things.
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