Above: The Death of General Warren at the Battle of Bunker Hill. Painting by 18th-Century artist John Trumbull: From the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Photograph within the Public Domain.

The Battle of Bunker Hill was one of the earliest battles of the Revolutionary War. The battle was noteworthy, in that the British suffered far more casualties than the Americans, and proved an inexperienced militia could fight and hold its own against regular army troops. Above: Concord, Massachusetts; 24 October 2020. The Minute Man statue and North Bridge at Minute Man National Historic Park. Photograph licensed to War History Network.

Top books on the American Revolutionary War include: The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1783 by Robert Middlekauff (Oxford University Publishing, 1982, 2005); Scars of Independence: America's Violent Birth by Holger Hoock (Crown Publishing, 2017);  A Revolutionary People at War by Charles Royster (The University of North Carolina Press, 1979). These contributions to the literature provide a deep and vast overview, or survey, of this war.