Bunker Hill Essay

The most important battle of the revolutionary war is bunker hill because it plays the most important role to winning the revolutionary war because the the amount of people killed and captured and the land gained by this battle.All the battles played an important role but the evidence points this battle to play the greatest role in defeating the british . It was the best because the land gained . The amount of british killed and the amount wounded .And the fact that we won the battle and it gave us the confidence to keep fighting for our independent and win the revolutionary war.

On june 17 ,1775 when the colonist found out that britain was planning to take over dorchester heights. The colonies became alarmed. This battle was one to remember because it made both sides realize this was not going to be decided by one battle and it was going to be a long and painful war . Both the british and the colonists wanted to take over bunker hill to have a good vantage point of boston harbor .Later that night british dispatch 2,300 to take it over the hill but since it was late at night they had chose the wrong hill and they had chosen breeds hill .So the battle of bunker hill had actually took place on breed's hill.In this battle the colinist had tooken 226 british lives while the british took 115 colisst and the colnist had wounded 828 while the british wounded 305 …show more content…
Another reason that the battle was the best was the casualties caused to the british and the little deaths the the colonist. Compared to the battle 4of trenton is that the battle of trenton had way less casualties than the battle of bunker hill . Also the battle of trenton the battle of trenton was a good battle because the way the they surprised the british after christmas so they were hungover and unprepared. But the reson