Why did the british want to capture bunker hill?

British General William Howe lands his troops on the Charlestown Peninsula overlooking Boston, Massachusetts, and leads them against Breed's Hill, a fortified American position just below Bunker Hill, on this day in 1775. ... After reforming his lines, Howe attacked again, with much the same result.

THe general William Howe and his troops defeated the Americans at the fight of Bunker Hill in 1775.

The native americans, spanish, french and americans all name places in our state. the word “arkansas” came from the quapaw indians, by way of early french explorers. at the time of the early french exploration, a tribe of indians, the quapaws, lived west of the mississippi and north of the arkansas river.