As the winter of 1775 approached, George Washington had to think about the state of the siege of Boston. In short, housing and clothing thousands of men in a New England winter is a very different proposition than doing it in the summer.

So Washington convened his War Council to discuss the possibility of breaking the siege by attacking the city from a different direction.

Meanwhile up in Canada, General Philip Schuyler takes another run at Fort St. Jean.

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