Boston. The three English generals—William Howe, Henry Clinton, and John Burgoyne—arrive in Boston and find 6,000 of His Majesty’s soldiers, the finest in Europe, besieged by hordes of poorly armed farmers and ranchers. Two months earlier, the English troops had been repelled and pursued from Concord to the peninsula connecting Boston to the mainland. Here the English stopped and counted their losses: 273. It was the siege of Boston.
