The Battle of Bunker Hill proved that colonial forces could stand against trained British troops. Although the British captured the position, their losses were severe and unsettling. The siege of ...

Explore the pivotal Battle of Bunker Hill and the surrounding Siege of Boston during the American Revolution.

The Battle of Bunker Hill was fought on June 17, 1775, during the Siege of Boston in the first stage of the American ...

Andrew O’Shaughnessy, a history professor at the University of Virginia, is author of “The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution, and the Fate of the Empire.” He is ...