George+Washington

George Washington Washington took command of troops surrounding British-occupied Boton on July 3, taking the next few months traning undisciplined 14,00-men army and trying to secure urgently needed powder and other supplies. March 1776 using cannon brought from Ticonderoga by Herny Knox, Washnigton occpied Dorchester Heights effectively commanding the city and forcing British to evacute on March 17. He moved to defend New York with combine land and sea forces of Sir William Howe. In New York commited a military blunder by occupying an untenable postion in Brooklyn. He saved his army skillfully retreating from Manhattan Into Westcester County through New Jersey into Pennsylvania.

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