You're listening to an airwave media podcast. Hello, and thank you for joining the American Revolution. Today, episode 59, taking Fort Tic Kondoroga.

In the weeks that followed Lexington and Concord, neither sides seem to know what to do next.

Gage's regulars and trench themselves in Boston.

Worried that they would be unable to defend against an assault,

they pulled their soldiers out of Charlestown.

However, they warn the Patriot Militia surrounding Boston that if Militia attempted to occupy Charlestown,

they would burn it down. So for the time being, Charlestown became a no-man's land between the two armies.

Other than that, the two sides pretty much

sat looking at each other across Boston Harbor

waiting for the other side to do something.

As word spread after Lexington and Concord, militia from

neighboring colonies converged around Boston. Some rushed to the scene like

Israel Putnam, who literally walked away from plowing his field in Connecticut,

heading straight to Boston on April 20th, the day after fighting.

His son had to put away the plowin oxen that he had literally left standing in the field.

Putnam had been an outspoken patriot leader who had heard at a flock of sheep to Boston the year earlier

to feed the residents after the Boston Port Act had effectively

ended all food imports by sea. Now, Putnam, who would serve as a major general, was there to fight.

Others took a little longer to arrive.

When work reached New Haven, Connecticut, a young apothecary named Benedict

Arnold decided it was time for decisive action.

A month earlier, the men of New Haven had formed a new militia company and elected Arnold as

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