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On June 17th, 17th, 1775, New England soldiers faced the British Army in a pitch battle. Bloody fighting took place throughout a hilly landscape of fence pastures that were situated across the Charles River from Boston.

Though the British were victorious, the psychological toll inflicted by American soldiers from Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New Hampshire was staggering.

Of the some 2,400 British soldiers and Marines engaged, 1,000 were wounded or killed.

I'm Jason Epperson, and today on America's National Parks,

the Battle of Bunker Hill and the Bunker Hill Monument,

part of the Boston National Historical Park.

The Ottoman winter of 1774 proved to be a time fraught with growing tension in close calls

between the Crown and the colonies.

On April 19, 1775, fighting erupted in the small Massachusetts towns of Lexington and Concord.

Running skirmishes took place throughout the day as the British detachment fought their way

back to their home camps in Boston, a distance of some 20 miles.

Local town militias mobilized quickly to defend and assist their neighbors from British attacks.

By the end of the day, British occupied Boston lay surrounded by thousands of militiamen.

As alarm spread throughout New England, as many as 20,000 men marched to Boston from modern day

Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, Connecticut, and Rhode Island.

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