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After the siege of Boston required the British to evacuate that city in March 1776, Continental Army commander George Washington suspected that the English would move by sea to New York City, the next rational target so that they can end a colonial insurrection. He thus rushed his military south to defend the city. Washington guessed effectively, but it might be to no avail. Unlike Boston, NY City's terrain included few defensible positions. The city lacked a higher point that to start a siege, as the peninsula of Boston was fortunate to have. Additionally, Washington wasn't sure defending the location was necessary, expecting that an expedition launched toward Quebec, like the one Benedict Arnold experienced led in late 1775, would keep carefully the British from New York anyway. However, Congress thought otherwise, and demanded that Washington defend New York. Washington thus do what he was told, and it almost led to the army's demise. In the summertime of 1776, the English conducted the most significant amphibious expedition in North America's history at the time, landing over 20,000 soldiers on Long Island. English Standard William Howe, who experienced led the English at Bunker Hill and would later become commander-in-chief of the armies in THE UNITED STATES, easily captured Staten Island, which Washington was incapable of defending without a proper navy. Washington's military attempted to battle, but Washington was terribly outmaneuvered, and his military was nearly take off from escape. The drawback across New York City was enormously disorderly, with a lot of Washington's soldiers so frightened that they deserted. Others were tired because of this of the dysentery and smallpox plaguing the Continental Army in NY.

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