Battle of Bunker Hill

Battle of Bunker Hill

While the battles of Lexington and Concord were spontaneous outbursts of violence, the Battle of Bunker Hill was the first deliberate conflict of the American...

This image is the earliest known depiction of the Battle of Bunker Hill. It appeared in the Pennsylvania MagazinePennsylvania Magazine or Monthly Museum from January 1775 to June 1776 and in which many of the first images of early American Revolutionary battles appeared....

Engraved by Bernard Romans (1720-1784). The Swissborn engraver lived in the British colonies from 1757 to 1780. He settled in Connecticut in the early 1770s and in 1775 published the book he is famous for, A Concise Natural History of East and West Florida. In 1775, he accompanied...

Fortifying Breed's Hillis an engraving by Samuel Hollyer (1826-1919) who was born in London and worked in London and New York as an engraver and etcher, working for a long time for book publishers. It is based on an illustration by F.O.C. Darley. After dusk, on the night of June 16,...

View of the Attack is an engraving by John Lodge based on a drawing by an artist named Mr. Millar. It was published in the 1780's or 1790's in the English book New Complete & Authentic History of England. The image is the artist's interpretation of the event, from a British...