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This week episode 189, the Battle of Monmouth.

Last week I covered British efforts

to march across New Jersey after evacuating Philadelphia.

They were marching to New York City. General Clinton had sent his heavy equipment,

civilians, prisoners, and the sick via the fleet, but the bulk of his army had to march overland.

The Continental's under Washington

sent only a token force to reclaim Philadelphia.

Leaving behind his sick and invalids,

Washington moved his entire army out of Valley Forge and into New Jersey toward the

retreating British column. As the Continental Army began its first major campaign of 1778.

It did so with a new second in command of the Army.

Charles Lee had been a British prisoner of war since late 1776. When the British had captured him

a few weeks before the Battle of Trenton, the Continental Army was on the ropes. Many

expected it to fail at any time. Many were also calling for General

Lee to replace Washington as commander of the Army. Lee at that time had refused to join his army with Washington's for a final showdown.

Instead he found one excuse after another to remain in Northern New Jersey, and it was only after his capture that his army merged with

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