This stamp is part of a series of 10 depicting flags carried by American colonists and citizens of the new United States. The battle of Bunker Hill of the American Revolution was misnamed. When Americans learned that the British in Boston planned to take certain heights outside of the city, Gen. Artemas Ward ordered the fortification of Bunker Hill on the Charlestown peninsula. His subordinates, without explanation, took positions on nearby Breed's Hill. The British launched an attack on the hill and within several hours the Americans were forced to give up their positions. The British dead and wounded accounted for more than 1,150 of 2,500 men in the battle.