Bunker Hill Monument

 

 

 

 

This is us at the Bunker Hill Monument. This was the place where the first major battle of the American Revolution was fought. On June 17, 1775, colonists defended the hill against thousands of British soldiers who had rowed across the Charles River to attack them. After struggling for many hours with little ammunition and no reinforcements, the colonists fled into the countryside. The British troops had won the battle. One night, a few months later, colonial soldiers placed cannons on top of Dorchester Heights, a neighboring hill which overlooks Boston. They pointed them at the British ships in the harbor below and threatened to attack. Soon after, British troops sailed out of Boston, never to return.