Quebec

• Washington send Col. Arnold and 1100 troops through the unmapped wilderness in Maine
• Rifleman - Daniel Morgan
• Gen. Montgomery takes 1200 men up Lake Champlain and onto the St. Lawrence River
• They get bogged down outside of Montreal 
• Date of Battle ~ 12-31-75
• Reasons
• Create a 14th colony
• Eliminate the threat of an evasion from the North
• Eliminate a British base in North America
• Create an aggressive statement to the king and show him the costs of war
• Bring the Canadians on the American side 

Board Notes - November 8th

Need to Know!!!

• 1776
• Building a Navy
• October 11
• British Victory
• March 
• Washington is outside of Boston
• Dorchester Heights
• British leave Boston
• Washington puts cannons at Dorchester Heights
• General Howe awakes so see said cannons and leaves Boston
• August 
• New York/Long Island/Manhattan
• British has largest army that they will ever have
• Admiral Howe
• 32,000 troops
• General Howe
• 40,000 troops
• They quickly take Long Island
• Washington has a series of defeats in 1775-776
• December 25
• Trenton
• January 1, 1777
• Princeton
• Brandywine
• One of Washington's next battles after Princeton
• British Victory
• Germantown
• One of Washington's next battles after Princeton
• British victory
• General Howe decided to leave Johnny Burgoyne alone and go capture Philadelphia
• Symbolic victory, but really did nothing
• Washington figures out that as long as he keeps his army alive, it doesn't matter if he won or lost certain battles
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