History of the United States I / Unit 6 USH1 0758 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Two Strategies
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The idea
Britain evacuated Boston in March seventeen seventy-six and planned to isolate New England with three armies converging on the Hudson from New York, Montreal and Fort Oswego.
In practice
Washington focusing instead on keeping an army in the field through the winter.
Where people slip
He broke the eighteenth-century convention restricting combat to summer, launching surprise winter strikes to boost morale.
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