Episode 132 Britain Adjusts its War Plans

American Revolution Podcast

Michael Troy

History, Education

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Over the fall and winter of 1776-1777, General Howe proposes his strategic plans to officials in London. Those officials deny most of Howe's requests for reinforcements, thus causing him to reduce his plans. At the same time, officials in London meet with General Burgoyne and agree to have him lead an invasion of upstate New York from Canada, thus angering several more senior generals who wanted that command. No one bothers to tell the North American Commander, Howe, that he must support Burgoyne's invasion, so he plans to put his army aboard ships and sail away for an attack on Philadelphia. Visit my site at https://blog.AmRevPodcast.com for more text, pictures, maps, and sources on this topic. Book Recommendation of the Week: Logistics and the Failure of the British Army in America, 1775-1783, by Arthur Bowler. Online Recommendation of the Week: Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts Report on the manuscripts of Mrs. Stopford-Sackville, of Drayton House, Northamptonshire Vol. 2: https://archive.org/details/reportonmanuscri02grea_0 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:39.6	Today episode 132 Britain adjusts its war plans.
0:46.2	General William Howe had hoped to end his 1776 campaign
0:50.9	with the subjugation of New Jersey in December.
0:54.8	With that he expected the remainder of the Continental Army to dissolve and then he could
0:59.9	focus on granting pardons to everyone who swore loyalty to the king.
1:04.8	Of course, General Washington and the Continental's had other ideas,
1:08.9	fighting the battles of Trenton and Princeton, and keeping up the Farage War across New Jersey for most of the winter.
1:16.2	This kept the Continental Army and the counter-offensive alive for at least another year.
1:22.3	General Howe left the skirmishing in New Jersey to his
1:24.8	subordinates. Hal personally spent the winter in New York enjoying one party
1:30.6	after another, as well as his mistress Betsy Loring.
1:35.0	His professional focus remained on the inevitable campaign that would begin again in the spring of 1777.
1:43.0	Even before the Continental's had counterattacked at Trenton in late December,
1:48.0	indeed even before Howe had completed pushing the Army out of White Plains, New York,
1:53.0	How had begun writing Lord Germain and others in London
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