Teaching American History through the Arts
The Songs

Ballad of Bunker Hill

About the Song

  • A firsthand account of the Battle of Bunker Hill on June 17, 1775
  • To save bullets, colonists were ordered, “Don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes.”
  • Colonists drove the British back twice before running out of bullets
  • Though a nominal British victory, British casualties, including many officers, were more than double that of the colonials