March 1776 was an extremely important month! After months of planning, George Washington ordered continental forces and local volunteers to stealthily fortify Dorchester Heights location with cannon all in ONE night.
Instead of writing about this event myself, I am going to give you the URL for the Mount Vernon website to read what has been written there. Mount Vernon updates every day so if you are reading this much later you will want to go to the pages written for March 1776.
Two of my favorite pieces of information from that site are:
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This military operation led British forces to evacuate Boston two weeks later, on March 17, 1776. The siege of Boston was at an end!
