This is CBSI in the world. I'm John Batchel with Professor Joseph Ellis. The new book is The Cause.

And this is a view of the war. Fast forward because the people participating in this war are thinking about it all the time.

They don't even see it as a war. It's seen as a rebellion in London.

It's seen as the cause in Boston. However, other cities, New York, Philadelphia, Charleston,

have different opinions and we'll touch upon them as we go forward. There is a battle, though,

that will determine everybody's early thinking. That's Bunker Hill, where the British are badly beaten up, though they win the day by driving off the militia.

Now comes George Washington to take command, and he wants, he sees, his vision is for an army, a disciplined army.

The British make a decision to withdraw from Boston as guns, as cannon arrive that they've founded Fort Ticonderoga and hauled over the mountains.

The commander understands that he must leave how the William Howe of the Howe brothers remains behind.

And he is ordered or the decision is made by London.

George Germain is now Secretary of State for the colonies to move to New York.

In moving to New York, Washington has an opportunity at some point, at some point to move to New York as well, to hold New York. Washington has an opportunity at some point, at some point to move to New York as well,

to hold New York. So the expectation now is that there's going to be a battle.

Professor, here is the wonderful insight that I gain from your book. New York becomes the

battlefield for the payoff for both the Howe brothers and George Washington.

More interesting to me is George Washington.

Before the Howes arrived back with a fleet to dominate the story,

why does George Washington believe New York is important?

Why does he move his forces from Boston,

where they're quite secure, to Long Island? He moves it because he knows, and the American

Congress knows that that's the place the British are going to focus on an attack. They know

there's a British strategy to take New York, whose carver is invaluable

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