Posted on Mar 16, 2021
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Today is “Evacuation Day” and celebrates the British evacuation of Boston Massachusetts on Sunday, March 17, 1776. I emigrated from Detroit Michigan to the Greater-Boston area in 1973 and have lived here ever since. I have been totally captured by its history.
This Evacuation Day holiday is only celebrated in Suffolk County (manipulates of Boston, Revere, Chelsea and Winthrop). It is partially celebrated in Somerville (Middlesex County).
On March 4, 1776 American Brigadier General John Thomas, under orders of George Washington, secretly occupied positions on the hills of Dorchester Heights with several thousand troops and cannons.
Those cannons had been transported by Col. Henry Knox from Fort Ticonderoga (near the south end of Lake Champlain in New York) over 300 miles to Cambridge, Massachusetts.
The British thought it wise to leave Boston and retire to Halifax, Nova Scotia.
This Evacuation Day holiday is only celebrated in Suffolk County (manipulates of Boston, Revere, Chelsea and Winthrop). It is partially celebrated in Somerville (Middlesex County).
On March 4, 1776 American Brigadier General John Thomas, under orders of George Washington, secretly occupied positions on the hills of Dorchester Heights with several thousand troops and cannons.
Those cannons had been transported by Col. Henry Knox from Fort Ticonderoga (near the south end of Lake Champlain in New York) over 300 miles to Cambridge, Massachusetts.
The British thought it wise to leave Boston and retire to Halifax, Nova Scotia.
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