In this way I took revenge on multitudes of both sexes by subjecting them to the calamity of a cruel famine, and so became the barbarous murderer of many thousands, both young and old, of that fine race of people. William's deathbed confession, according to Ordericus Vitalis, c. 1130. The real fear was a British invasion. Massachusetts Convention replaces the legislature, meets illegally, protests the coming of British troops to Boston. Cornwallis occupies Philadelphia.
British troops occupy Boston.