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Today episode 86 the evacuation of Boston.

Last week the Continental Army took Dorchester Heights.

The British could not retake the Heights by force,

and possession of the Heights put the entire Boston Army and Navy at risk.

Now months before Dorchester even happened, British General William Howe had already planned to evacuate Boston.

Secretary of State George Germain had even sent communications authorizing the evacuation.

But Howe felt that a winter evacuation would be difficult.

He had planned to move his army down to New York and make New York City

the base of operations in the spring. London was sending large numbers of

reinforcements in a few months and how was mostly awaiting their arrival.

General John Burgoyne was already beginning his deployment to Canada where he would reassert control there.

The plan was that Berghoy would move down the Hudson as General Howe moved up the Hudson.

With this the two armies would cut off New England and isolate the most troublesome part of the

continent.

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