As the late Bay State historian David McCullough wrote in his e-book “1776,” Evacuation Day was “a spectacle.”
“There were 120 ships departing with more than 11,000 people packed on board — 8,906 King’s troops, 667 women and 553 children, and in addition, waiting down the harbor, were 1,100 Loyalists,” McCullough wrote.
On March 17, 1776, British troops and loyalists fled Boston by ship for Canada. The relaxation is historical past after which some!
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