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episode 80 the Knox Expedition. So the last couple of weeks we've been discussing generals Richard Montgomery

and Benedict Arnold's attempts to take Quebec. Meanwhile George Washington remained outside of Boston mostly watching and waiting for an opportunity to do something.

Washington was always restless and looking for a way to break the siege. He sought and

received approval from the Continental Congress to bombard and destroy Boston if he

deemed it a military necessity. Now this was no small concession from Congress.

The President of Congress, John Hancock, stood to lose his mansion and most of his other

property in Boston if this happened.

Washington also engaged in many small raids against the regulars.

On January 6th, he sent 200 men under the command of Major Thomas Knowlton to raid the Charlestown Peninsula

where the British still occupied blindly in their direction.

The Continental raiding party shot one century, which immediately caused the British to fire blindly in their direction.

The party ignored the shots from Bunker Hill, set the houses on fire,

captured five other regulars, and retreated back across the neck to Cambridge.

Now the main reason anyone remembers this minor raid was that the top military brass in Boston were enjoying a play written by General

Burgoyne called the blockade of Boston performed by their fellow officers.

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