Howe’s excessive caution at Bunker Hill cost him the decisive victory in 1776

Evidence

Howe had learned the virtues of caution a year earlier when he lost a third of his soldiers either killed or wounded in a rash assault against entrenched patriots in the Battle of Bunker Hill. He would not make that mistake again, but in avoiding it he made others. With a force vastly outnumbering Washington’s by mid-July, and with his men better armed, better trained, and in better health than the enemy, Howe waited yet another month for more British and 8,600 Hessian soldiers to arrive before attacking. — Edward J. Larson, Declaring Independence, 236

Categorization

• recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source
• XREF: connects to: An insurgency’s victory can rest on preventing defeat, not winning battles — Edward J. Larson, Declaring Independence, 352; Howe’s caution narrowed his own window for decisive victory in 1776 — Edward J. Larson, Declaring Independence, 238

Broader Connections

• Howe’s caution narrowed his own window for decisive victory in 1776 #corroborates (0.95) — Edward J. Larson, Declaring Independence, 238