User:Gcocucci2/Siege of Boston

New England militiamen, who later became part of the Continental army, prevented the movement by land of the British Army, which was garrisoned in what was then the peninsular city of Boston, Massachusetts Bay. In June 1775, the British seized Bunker and Breed's Hills, from which the Continentals were preparing to bombard the city, the British defeated an inexperienced colonial force that nevertheless managed to inflict heavy casualties, in fact their casualties were so heavy and their gains insufficient to break the Continental Army's control over land access to Boston. In November 1775, General George Washington arrived in the Boston area to take charge of the newly established Continental army. George Washington sent 25-year-old bookseller-turned-soldier Henry Knox on a mission to bring to Boston the heavy artillery that had recently been captured at Fort Ticonderoga.