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This week episode 88 British War Plans for 1776.

So two weeks ago we said goodbye to General Howe's army as they evacuated Boston for Halifax.

At the same time Washington began redeploying his continental army to face wherever the British Army

struck next, presumably New York City.

Last week we popped in on the relatively demoralized Americans around Quebec, also

waiting to see what the British would do next.

Back in London the North Ministry had spent the winter preparing for a full-scale war.

After the battles at Lexington and Concord and later Bunker Hill, it became clear that the

colonials were not going to back down with some small show of force.

If the British wanted to keep the American colonies, they would have to hit them hard and hit them with everything they could muster.

So today I'm going to go over the war planning and deployments

that will take us all the way through 1776. In London King George III had become actively involved in the planning and

policymaking for the war. Unlike the first and second King George's, George III sought a much more active role in actually governing Britain, not just sitting around as a figure had mostly focused on his ancestral home in Hanover, Germany.

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