Washington Takes Command
from The Revolutionary War Podcast Hosted by Matt Schmidt
On the morning of July 3, 1775, the fate of American independence hung in delicate balance on a grassy field in Cambridge, Massachusetts. As dawn broke over thecolonial encampments surrounding British-occupied Boston, thousands of New England militiamen gathered to witness a ceremony that would transform their loosely affiliated provincial forces into something far greater—a ContinentalArmy.
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