“Don’t fire ‘til you see the whites of their eyes.”
The Battle of Bunker Hill, fought here on Breed’s Hill, June 17, 1775, was the first major military confrontation of the Revolutionary War. Although the . . . — — Map (db m282107) HM
On this hill the Continental militia fought heroically on June 17, 1775. Protected by an earth and timber redoubt laid out by Colonel Richard Gridley, the Army’s first chief engineer, the Americans killed or wounded nearly half of the attacking . . . — — Map (db m18653) HM
The rail fence and grass line of protection formed after the British troops landed was six hundred feet in the rear at the base of Bunker Hill — — Map (db m18659) HM
The line of Rail Fence and Grass Protection formed after the British Troops landed on the seventeenth of June extended in this direction to Mystic River — — Map (db m55530) HM
As the final act of an eleven month siege, the Continental Army occupied these heights and forced the evacuation of British troops from Boston on March 17, 1776 – General George Washington’s first victory in the American Revolution. — — Map (db m295494) HM
This Park stands on the site of a Revolutionary war fort which played an instrumental part in forcing the March 17, 1775 evacuation of the British forces occupying Boston. The Fort was destroyed in 1869 for the construction of the water standpipe . . . — — Map (db m292628) HM
