The Glorious Cause - Bunker Hill

American Political History · Mar 31, 2025 · 29m

The British called it a victory. It nearly destroyed them. On June 17th, 1775, the King’s regulars marched up a hill outside Boston three times into the muskets of New England farmers, and walked away having lost more than a thousand men, the bloodiest single day the British army would suffer in the entire war.

This is the episode that teaches you how an 18th-century battle actually worked, the smoothbore musket, the held volley, the bayonet, the terrible discipline of standing still while a wall of men fires into you. It is the lens for every battle still to come. And it is the story of…