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George Washington

The Continental Army reduced by half to 9,600 men

Jan, 1776
U.S.

The Continental Army, further diminished by expiring short-term enlistments, and by January 1776 reduced by half to 9,600 men, had to be supplemented with militia, and was joined by Knox with heavy artillery captured from Fort Ticonderoga.


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