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- Discusses some of the famous legends of the challenge and if they are accurate.
- Includes accounts of the fighting compiled by witnesses and military.
"We have...learned one melancholy truth, which would be that the Americans, if indeed they were equally well commanded, are full as good military as ours." (A United kingdom officer after the Battle of Bunker Hill) On Apr 19, 1775, the "shot noticed 'round the world" was fired at Lexington, officially starting the brand new War between your colonists and the English Empire. Though Lexington and Concord were the displays of the first fighting with each other, contingency ideas for war had been made on both factors. Immediately after the Fights of Lexington and Concord, the colonial militia men who had poured in from over the countryside converged on Boston, which at the time was a peninsula with a tiny neck of the guitar attaching it to the rest of Massachusetts. Together with the Charles River encircling it on three factors, Boston was an excellent city to lay siege to. Originally, the militias clogged off the land approaches to Boston, but when 4,500 more United kingdom soldiers arrived by sea, the American makes fell back again to adjacent hillsides on the Charlestown Peninsula, Breed's Hill, and Bunker Hill. At this time, the colonists and colonial makes were still unclear of these ultimate goals; the Second Continental Congress would not formally declare freedom for another year. Through the first couple of months of the fighting with each other, the British attempted on several situations to lift up the siege with pressure, and the most memorable attempt was what became known as the Battle of Bunker Hill. On June 17, 1775, the United kingdom Navy fired on Charlestown from the Charles River and then got an estimated 3,000 United kingdom regulars on the peninsula.
