Those I doubt not they will discharge, and that is all I desire.[1] [Footnote 1: Ford, II, 477-78-79, 480-81.] Accompanied by Lee and Schuyler and a brilliant escort, he set forth on June 21st for Boston.

Before they had gone twenty miles a messenger bringing news of the Battle of Bunker Hill crossed them.

"Did the Militia fight ?" Washington asked.

On being told that they did, he said: "Then the liberties of the country are safe." Then he pushed on, stopping long enough in New York to appoint General Schuyler military commander of that Colony, and so through Connecticut to the old Bay State.

There, at Cambridge, he found the crowd awaiting him and some of the Colonial troops.