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Hello. Hello and thank you for joining the American Revolution.

Today, episode 114, Escape from Fort Lee.

Last week, the Continental Army suffered what would be its worst loss in the first five years of the

war.

The British took the last 3,000 continentals on Manhattan Island

when they captured Fort Washington. In terms of American losses, this was by far the

greatest American defeat up to this point in the war.

General George Washington took responsibility for the loss, but said his failure was that he relied too heavily on the advice of his more junior officers,

not mentioning in his report to Congress that he was on the site three days before the attack began. Other officers smelled blood in the water.

General Charles Lee, now second in command in the Continental Army,

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