Battle of Bunker Hill
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area, but if you add up the British wounded and dead the total would be about eleven hundred people! The American dead and wounded were less than half of that. So the British actually did win the battle, by driving the Americans out of Breeds hill, but it left a heavy toll on the British army. "It was such a dear victory, another such would have ruined us," said General Henry Clinton after the battle.
area, but if you add up the British wounded and dead the total would be about eleven hundred people! The American dead and wounded were less than half of that. So the British actually did win the battle, by driving the Americans out of Breeds hill, but it left a heavy toll on the British army. "It was such a dear victory, another such would have ruined us," said General Henry Clinton after the battle.