Siege of Boston .-- It was most fortunate that the British army was at Boston when the war began, for Boston was about as bad a place for an army as could be found.

In those days Boston was hardly more than an island connected with the mainland by a strip of gravel.

Gage built a fort across this strip of ground.

The Americans could not get in.

But they built a fort at the landward end, and the British could not get out.