in a long war of attrition and exhaustion. As the combat in New York had shown, he could not beat the British army in a conventional battle. The only hope of winning the war was not to lose is. Time became his greatest weapon. Over the next eight years he and his troops would outlast the invaders through a strategy of evasion and maneuver punctuated by selective confrontations.
2. Choosing Sides: What happened after the British captured New York? What three groups were the colonists divided into…
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