The British had a considerable fleet in Boston Harbor, and they had to rely upon it to bring provisions and to keep in touch with the world outside.
Washington had his headquarters at the Craigie House in Cambridge, some half a mile from Harvard Square and the College.

He was now forty-three years old, a man of commanding presence, six feet three inches tall, broad-shouldered but slender, without any signs of the stoutness of middle age.

His hands and feet were large.

His head was somewhat small.

The blue-gray eyes, set rather far apart, looked out from heavy eyebrows with an expression of attentiveness.