Battle of bunker hill
...ross from Boston, the Americans decided to invade that area. They were also starting to build a fortress on it because; at that position they could shoot cannon balls into Boston without any difficulties. The colonists also wanted to get revenge on the British for shooting them in their backs when they were retreating at Lexington. A spy brought news to the Americans that the British General Gage ordered about seven thousand men to take out the twenty-thousand man American makeshift army at Bunker Hill. There were many people involved in this battle. Colonel Prescott led the American army on Breeds Hill. General Gage was the British officer who helped the British win many battles in the Revolutionary War who led the British at Breed Hill. The man who led the British army up the hillside to attack the Americans was General W.M. Howe. While the Americans were digging trenches, they were waiting for the British to come. Not to long after dawn broke, British warships started firing at the hillside with cannonballs. That did little damage to the Americans. After the British marched as best as they could in their lines, The British were right behind them. The American rifles went off and hit their targets with spectacular aim. The bullets left a hillside covered with blood, soldiers, and a place that everybody would remember for a long time. The British retreated to the bottom of the Hill and regrouped. For that kind of punishment was more than the advancing British could take. After the British came up to the hill a third time, there was silence. The Americans ran out of ammunition completely. The British ran into the trenches and started killing the Americans. Some of the American colonists were fighting with their hands, feet, teeth, anything they could find to ward...