The Battle of Boston

As the autumn of 17 75 set in, everyone was still staring at each other and occasionally chatting with each ther across the lines. But by now, washington faced the great problem that would plague him for the entire war. All those militia enlistments that were due to expire on january first, and none of those guys had even hinted that they planned to stick around. And waging too brutal a war would unjustly punish the colonists for defending a cause that howe himself was entirely sympathetic to. So as he's trying to hold the siege together, washington is also about to have to complete swap out his army, and, of course, lose whatever training may have sunk in with all