Dictionary of Battles / From the Earliest Date to the Present Time

by Thomas Benfield Harbottle

Bunker's Hill (American War of Independence).

Fought June 17, 1775, when 2,000 British troops, forming a portion of General Gage's army, dislodged the Americans holding Breeds Hill and Bunker's Hill, on the outskirts of Boston. The position was stubbornly contested, the assailants losing 800 men.