"Battle of Bunker Hill" is a painting by American artist Edward Percy Moran.
The Battle of Bunker Hill took place on June 17, 1775, mostly on and around Breed's Hill, during the Siege of Boston early in the American Revolutionary War. The battle is named... after the adjacent Bunker Hill, which was peripherally involved in the battle and was the original objective of both colonial and British troops, and is occasionally referred to as the "Battle of Breed's Hill." On June 13, 1775, the leaders of the colonial forces besieging Boston learned that the British generals were planning to send troops out from the city to occupy the unoccupied hills surrounding the city. In response to this intelligence, 1,200 colonial troops under the command of William Prescott stealthily occupied Bunker Hill and Breed's Hill, constructed an earthen redoubt on Breed's Hill, and built lightly fortified lines across most of the Charlestown Peninsula. When the British were alerted to the presence of the new position the next day, they mounted an attack against them. After two assaults on the colonial lines were repulsed with significant British casualties, the British finally captured the positions on the third assault, after the defenders in the redoubt ran out of ammunition.more
Edward Percy Moran was an American artist known for his scenes of American history. He was born in Philadelphia to Edward Moran, a notable artist who immigrated to the United States from England. He studied under his father and at Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and National Academy of Design. He was a painter of historical American subjects and examples of his work are in many prominent collections. He died in New York City in 1935. His... brother Leon Moran , and his uncles Peter Moran and Thomas Moran, and his cousin Jean Leon Gerome Ferris, also were prominent American artists.more