Essentials of United States history . in ranks. The advancing column broke and fled. Once more, rallied by their of-ficers, the army steadily movedforward to the assault. Againit was driven back by the samemiuderous fire. Then GeneralClinton arrived with reenforce-ments, and for the third time theBritish regulars marched up thehill against this Yankee force ofRetreat undisciplined yeomen,of the The Americans had ex- Amencans. hausted their ammuni-tion and were obhged to retired in good order acrossCharlestown Neck to Prospect they fortified British, on the
Essentials of United States history . in ranks. The advancing column broke and fled. Once more, rallied by their of-ficers, the army steadily movedforward to the assault. Againit was driven back by the samemiuderous fire. Then GeneralClinton arrived with reenforce-ments, and for the third time theBritish regulars marched up thehill against this Yankee force ofRetreat undisciplined yeomen,of the The Americans had ex- Amencans. hausted their ammuni-tion and were obhged to retired in good order acrossCharlestown Neck to Prospect they fortified British, on their part, wantonly burned Charlestown,destroying three hundred houses and two hundred otherbuildings. The British lost over a thousand men and the Americansless than half that number. The patriots, however, weregreatly saddened by the death of General Joseph Losses inWarren, who was shot in the head and killed in- the Battle,stantly. Among the losses on the British side was MajorPitcairn, who had led the regulars at Lexington. In the. Colonel William Prescott. From the statue on Bunker Hill. 120 ESSENTIALS OF UNITED STATES HISTORY decisive battle of Quebec, which practically closed the Frenchand Indian War, not so many British officers were killed as inthis little skirmish with the farmers of New England. 132. Results of the Battle. — Thus four thousand trainedand disciplined British regulars, after being twice repulsed byless than fifteen hundred raw militia, had succeeded in cap-turing a slightly fortified redoubt only because the ammu-nition of the defenders had been exhausted. The Englishgovernment and people now had a clearer idea of the great-ness of the task which they had undertaken. General Gageat once saw that it would be difficult to subdue the wrote to Lord Dartmouth: The rebels are not thedespicable rabble whom many have supposed them to conquest of this country is not easy. The colonies, ontheir part, encouraged l)y their success, were inspir
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