Rather than preventing a potential attack, Prescott had provoked what would prove to be the bloodiest engagement of the Revolution.
When the sun rose on the morning of June 17, 1775, British commander-in-chief Thomas Gage determined that given the proximity of the patriot stronghold he had no choice but to order an assault. Philbrick’s latest New York Times bestseller, Bunker Hill: A City, a Siege, a Revolution, was published in 2013 and was awarded both the 2013 New England Book Award for Non-Fiction and the 2014 New England Society Book Award. Instead of going with Bunker Hill on the northern portion of the Charlestown peninsula, Prescott’s men built their fort almost a half-mile to the south on Breed’s Hill-right in the figurative face of the British army, just a half mile across the harbor in Boston. But for reasons that are still unclear today, the New Englanders commanded by Colonel William Prescott built their earthen stronghold on the wrong hill. In order to prevent the British from attacking American forces stationed in Cambridge, Massachusetts, about 1,200 soldiers would, under the cover of darkness, build a fortification on a rise of land known as Bunker Hill. This item: Bunker Hill: A City, a Siege, a Revolution by Nathaniel Philbrick Paperback 19.99 Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution (The American Revolution Series) Book Cover May Vary by Nathaniel Philbrick Paperback 10. The original plan had seemed simple enough.
"The Battle of Bunker Hill" painting by John Trumbull.
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