The local Committee of Safety ordered Artemas Ward to rapidly fortify this clash's site after receiving intelligence regarding plans for the Dorchester Heights. Thomas Gage was dismissed primarily over his report on it, which also hardened resolve against the Olive Branch Petition despite the casualty numbers noted by Robert Pigot and William Howe, who ordered successive assaults from Copp's Hill against Israel Putnam and William Prescott. For 10 points, identify this pyrrhic British victory and subject of an apocryphal order concerning the "whites of their eyes," a battle for control of Bosto
The local Committee of Safety ordered Artemas Ward to rapidly fortify this clash's site after receiving intelligence regarding plans for the Dorchester Heights. Thomas Gage was dismissed primarily over his report on it, which also hardened resolve against the Olive Branch Petition despite the casualty numbers noted by Robert Pigot and William Howe, who ordered successive assaults from Copp's Hill against Israel Putnam and William Prescott. For 10 points, identify this pyrrhic British victory and subject of an apocryphal order concerning the "whites of their eyes," a battle for control of Boston that actually centered around Breed's Hill.
The local Committee of Safety ordered Artemas Ward to rapidly fortify this clash's site after receiving intelligence regarding plans for the Dorchester Heights.
Battle of {Bunker} Hill [accept {Battle} of {Breed's Hill} early]