On March 17th the British Fleet with 1,100 effective men and 1,000 refugees were taken to Nantasket roads and then Boston became free.
The Battle of Dorchester Heights on March 17, 1776, was a victory for the colonists.
The British evacuated Boston by sea on St. Patrick's Day 1776 after an 11-month siege. And that is why, to this day, kids in Suffolk County, Massachusetts, get St. Patty's day off from school.
The cannons from Fort Ticonderoga in upstate New York, captured in May 1775, were carried overland to Dorchester Heights overlooking Boston, from which they could have shelled the city. A storm caused a British counterattack to be canceled, and the British forces in Boston (who had earlier planned to leave anyway) evacuated by ship on March 17, 1776.
It was the opening phase of the American Revolution war. The colonial militias surrounded Boston, preventing the British from leaving by land and preventing supplies from entering by land. The siege ended when the British left by sea after canon were put in place on Dorchester Heights, overlooking the town.
The colonials bombarded the British from Imacheater Heights just East of Concord.
Fortification of Dorchester Heights happened in 1776.
The Battle of Dorchester Heights on March 17, 1776, was a victory for the colonists.
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It is stuppid.
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They controlled the road to Boston.
Benedict Arnold
breeds hill was seen as defensible for bunker hill & dorchester heights was the only water route in & out of boston
It was the first victory by Washington in the Revolutionary War.
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