On June 13th, the leaders of the colonial forces learned that the British were planning to send troops into Charlestown. In response, 1,200 colonial troops under the command of Col. William Prescott quickly occupied Bunker Hill on the north end of the peninsula and Breed's Hill closer to Boston. By the morning of the 16th, they had constructed a strong redoubt on Breed's Hill and other entrenchments across the peninsula. The next day, the British army under General William Howe, supported by Royal Navy warships, attacked the colonial defenses. The British troops moved up Breeds Hill in perfect battle formations. One of the commanders of the improvised garrison, William Prescott, allegedly encouraged his men to “not fire until you see the whites of their eyes.” Two assaults on the colonial positions were repulsed with significant British casualties; the third and final attack carried the position after the defenders ran out of ammunition. The colonists retreated to Cambridge over Bunker Hill, leaving the British in control of Charlestown but still besieged in Boston. The battle was a tactical victory for the British, but it proved to be a sobering experience, involving more than twice the casualties than the Americans had incurred, including many officers. The battle demonstrated that inexperienced Continental militia could stand up to regular British army troops in battle.
A grassroots movement is a political or economic movement that starts and works on a LOCAL LEVEL.
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The system of separation of powers divides the tasks of the state into three branches: legislative, executive and judicial. These tasks are assigned to different institutions in such a way that each of them can check the others.
feudalism is a system that was used in the middle ages where kings would give land to knights and nobles to manage, and peasants and serfs would work the land in exchange for food, shelter, and safety. this system caused wealth and power to be based on land, not based on money or influence. it also caused the peasants and serfs to be tied to the land that they worked on, which caused them to be safe and provided for but it didn't give them freedom to move up in social class. feudalism also caused a temporary decrease in trade in europe because manors (the land that the nobles managed) were self-sufficient, so they had no need to trade anymore. however it kept peasants safe and fed, which made it a good system for the time, but was ultimately a negative system.
