"We discovered this and a few other incorrect history lessons while visiting the Bunker Hill Monument."
That monument, as I recall, is not even on Bunker Hill - it's on Breed's Hill, which is where most of the fighting took place. The Brits technically won because the colonists withdrew from the battle first, but they got their butts kicked and took more casualties than the colonists, who were supposed to be the inferior force.
Another case of the wrong hill - when I was in high school, we were taught that Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders made a famous charge up San Juan Hill during the Spanish-American War, as if it were a major part of a battle; I later learned in college that the history textbooks we used had the wrong hill. It was actually a series of short charges up Kettle Hill - which is next to San Juan Hill - and the charges were just part of the larger American capture of the San Juan Heights. I don't know if the high school history books still have that little piece of misinformation. |
