Essentials of United States history . une, 1775, and commissioned in thename of the United Colonies. As the main army was centeredaround Boston, Washington went there. He arrived atCambridge on the 2d of July, and on the very next day, atabout nine oclock in the morning, Washington, with several of the general officers,went on foot (notmounted, as often rep-resented) to the elm stillstanding by the edge ofCambridge he said a fewwords to the assembledtroops, and drawing hissword took command ofthe Continental Army, la little band of strag-gling fanners, dressed inhomespun of varied
Essentials of United States history . une, 1775, and commissioned in thename of the United Colonies. As the main army was centeredaround Boston, Washington went there. He arrived atCambridge on the 2d of July, and on the very next day, atabout nine oclock in the morning, Washington, with several of the general officers,went on foot (notmounted, as often rep-resented) to the elm stillstanding by the edge ofCambridge he said a fewwords to the assembledtroops, and drawing hissword took command ofthe Continental Army, la little band of strag-gling fanners, dressed inhomespun of varied col-ors and texture. Cheersand shouts immediatelyfollowed, and the boom-ing of cannon told thestory to the enemy inBoston. Washington,tall, strong, and well proportioned, was at the time forty-three years of age. He wore a blue broadcloth coat, buffsmallclothes, silk stockings, and cocked hat. 134. The British Army leaves Boston. — In March, 1776,Washington fortified Dorchester Heights by night. The1 Quoted from Henry Cabot From the painting !>> General Washington in Command THE COLONIES ALIENATED 123 astonishment of Lord Howe can only be imagined when inthe morning he beheld these new entrenchments overlookingBoston and threatening his forces. He then rememberedtoo late that he had been advised by General Clinton to pos-sess and fortify this commanding position, and was bitterlymindful of the fact that once before, at Bunker Hill, theAmericans had stolen a march upon him. On that occasionhe had promptly attacked the new fortifications, but now hedared not risk an advance. He instead decided to leave thecity. On the 17th of March, 1776, his army, his fleet, andmany loyalists sailed away for Halifax, and the Americantroops, marching from Roxbury, or crossing the CharlesRiver from Cambridge, entered Boston. The British in theirhaste had left several hundred cannon, many horses, bedding,and soldiers clothing, and thousands of bushels of wheat, bar-ley, and oats. 1
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