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Today episode 89 General Washington moves to New York.

So at the end of March 1776, George Washington was still enjoying the adulation of expelling the last large British force in the 13 colonies.

General Howell had sailed his army from Boston to Halifax to await his brother Admiral Howe and his other reinforcements.

Now Washington knew that a strike was coming, but he still didn't know for sure exactly

where or when. Washington was on defense now. He had to figure out

where he needed his defenses. In his letters to Congress in April and May, Washington guessed that Howe might attack Quebec, New York, or possibly both.

He also had to worry about Clinton's force down in the Carolinas.

With less than 10,000

continentals to defend New York and only about 2,000 to defend Quebec, he

really did not have enough troops to defend either properly.

His hope was to force Howe to attack well-enrenched positions,

where, like Bunker Hill, the regulars would take far more casualties than the

Continental's.

His only other hope was for large numbers of local militia to turn out in each area to augment his army.

In Canada, this had proven impossible. Similarly in New York

far fewer locals were willing to turn out and fight for the cause. Much larger

populations were either loyalist or simply unwilling to risk their necks for the cause.

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