Definition of Bunker Hill

1. Noun. The first important battle of the American War of Independence (1775) which was fought at Breed's Hill; the British defeated the colonial forces.


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Bunker Hill (current term)
Bunnell's suture
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Bunsen-Roscoe law
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Literary usage of Bunker Hill

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1. Poems of American History by Burton Egbert Stevenson (1908)
"THE EVE OF Bunker Hill [June 16, 1775] T WAS June on the face of the earth, ... And the night's first star outshone afar on the eve of Bunker Hill. ..."

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