The weight is over. Last One Laughing is back and it's even more brutal than last time.

Share your biggest regrets. I don't regret this hair coat. What did you ask for? The Shaggy Slim Shady?

Joining us this series we have.

Romish Wrenner Nathan, Diane Morgan, David Mitchell, Mel Gedroich, Amy Gledhill, Alan Carr,

Bemi Sola, Ike Mello, Sam Campbell, Maisie Adam, and Bob Mortimer. Anyone want a song?

No.

Last One Laughing, new series. Watch now. Only on Prime Video.

I'm Mary Catherine. I'm celebrating America 250 by reading primary documents written for or by the founders for as many of the days of the year as I

can. Thank you for joining me for this mini episode of Getting Hammered. Today in 1776,

British troops are leaving Boston. After several unsuccessful attempts to cause damage to American

troops on Newk and Dorchester Hills, General Howell realizes he's been outmaneuvered, and the Brits just leave.

Washington's writings about the moment are reserved, as he's not quite ready to let down his guard.

He orders all continental troops to stay out of Boston proper and warns that they'll be punished without mercy should they attempt to plunder, as he puts it.

Another officer wrote, His Excellency is extremely apprehensive. The General Howe has some scheme in view and designs

of taking advantage of the hurry, bustle, and confusion among our troops, which he may

imagine his departure to have occasioned. He therefore requests that you will give orders to the

several regiments to be very alert and vigilant and ready to act upon the shortest notice

if there shall be a necessity. But we also have an account from inside the city where a Boston

selectman, Timothy Newell, has been waiting out the siege. A patriot in his leanings, he is in the

city with a mix of loyalists and British troops, along with several other selectmen, where they

are the only form of civilian

government left. In that capacity, they've negotiated food supplies and treatment of colonists left in

...