Why did the colonist retreat from the Battle of Bunker Hill?

Answer 1

The British held Boston for eleven months after Lexington and Concord. They were closely besieged by Washington's army, and most of their supplies had to come by ship all the way from England.

Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys, with Benedict Arnold along, had captured the largest Fort in America a few months after Lexington and Concord - Fort Ticonderoga. The Fort was on Lake Champlain, on the New York border. In the captured fort were almost 200 cannon of various sizes. Washington sent his artillery commander, Boston bookseller Henry Knox, to fetch the cannon to Boston. Knox had the cannon dismounted and put on ox sleds, and in an epic adventure, hauled the cannon across the roadless wastes of Vermont and New Hampshire, through the snows of a New England winter to Boston. In March of 1776 when all was in readiness, one dark night the Patriots hauled the remounted cannon to the top of Dorchester Heights. The Patriots dug furiously all night to emplace the guns, filling wicker basket-like gabions with the soil to make a wall behind which were placed the guns. When daylight came the British beheld the new Patriot position, from which all of Boston could be dominated by the Patriot's cannon. This move made the British hold on Boston untenable, so they took to their ships and sailed off to Halifax, Nova Scotia. When they left Boston, there were no British troops in any of the thirteen colonies, but, they would be back.

Answer 2

Their stuff[ammo, food, etc.] was running short.

Answer 3

because a hard winter hit the troops and they were forced to retreat

Answer 4

because they were out of supplies

Answer 5

Cause