After the skirmishes at Lexington and Concord came the first full-scale battle of the American Revolution. The Battle of Bunker Hill was where American troops first deployed European battle strategies, such as the building of small forts known as redoubts. Readers will be thrilled to learn how the people of Charlestown watched from their rooftops as their troops drove back several British advances, and then retreated over Charlestown neck to the mainland.