On June 17, 1775 American troops marched from the main provincial camp at Cambridge, Massachusetts to the Charlestown peninsula to join the Battle of Bunker Hill. I retraced their steps and timed approximately how long it would've taken American reinforcements to arrive at positions along the rail fence and at the breastwork and redoubt after crossing Charlestown Neck.

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Check out the below digital collections for more awesome map resources -

You can search the Battle of Bunker Hill in the digital collections in Leventhal Map Center, which is part of the Boston Public Library: https://www.leventhalmap.org/

The American Revolution Institute (part of the Society of the Cincinnati) has a great "Imagining the Battle of Bunker Hill" online exhibit: https://www.americanrevolutioninstitu...

And, you can also search for maps or drawings of the Battle of Bunker Hill on the Library of Congress website: https://www.loc.gov/