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This week, we remembered General George Washington's arrival in New York City on April 13, 1776.

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The British had evacuated Boston in mid-March after the Continental Army established an artillery

battery on Dorchester Heights with a position that could destroy the British Army and Navy. Now,

when the British left,

General Washington wasn't sure what they would do next. He kept his army in and around Boston,

fearing that the British might simply land a few miles away and attack his army from a different

direction. He had received intelligence that the enemy was headed for Halifax,

but he worried that this might be false information.

Over the next several weeks, in late March, early April, as Washington became increasingly confident that General Howe really was leaving Massachusetts for Halifax,

he shipped more and more of the Continental Army to New York.

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