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This is a short from the American Revolution podcast, just a bonus episode to remind you about these important anniversaries of the Revolutionary War.

This week, we remember the play, Blockade of Boston, which was interrupted on January 8th, 1776.

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Over the fall and winter of 1775-76, the British Army was besieged in Boston.

The last major tussle took place back in Bunker Hill in July.

After that, the two armies essentially settled into their lines and waited.

There were occasional raids here and there, but by and large, there wasn't much going on.

General Washington took over the Continental Army shortly after

Bunker Hill, and General Howe took command of the British Army after London recalled General

Gage after they received news about Bunker Hill. General Howe had instructions to evacuate Boston,

but he didn't have enough ships to remove his army and all the loyalist

civilians in Boston who would have been in big trouble if he had left them behind. He even had a lot

of trouble finding enough food and wood for his army to survive. But perhaps the biggest problem was

boredom. Soldiers with nothing to do mostly got into trouble. This included

both officers and enlisted men. Some officers went home to London for the winter. General Howe deployed

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