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Bunker Hill

[ buhng-ker ]

noun

  1. a hill in Charlestown, Mass.: the first major battle of the American Revolution, known as the Battle of Bunker Hill, was fought on adjoining Breed's Hill on June 17, 1775.


Bunker Hill

noun

  1. the first battle of the American Revolution, actually fought on Breed's Hill, next to Bunker Hill, near Boston, on June 17, 1775. Though defeated, the colonists proved that they could stand against British regular soldiers


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Whatever the reason, Burton was committed enough to leave tiny Bunker Hill to seek out her beau.

His latest book is Bunker Hill: A City, a Siege, a Revolution.

The boy received a serious wound at Bunker Hill, but no sooner had he recovered than he rejoined the Continental forces.

Of that, $494 million was allocated to clean the Bunker Hill site in Idaho.

Corner stone of Bunker hill monument laid with great and enthusiastic ceremonies; Lafayette being present.

Well, we couldn't even think Bunker Hill but what she'd pipe up about the Alamo.

It is supposed that at Bunker Hill our troops carried a red flag, with a pine tree on a white field in the corner.

The battle of Bunker Hill was attended with the most important effects beyond its immediate results as a military engagement.

He has not forgotten the emotion which the fame of Bunker Hill, and the name of Warren, excited in his youthful breast.

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