On this day 250 years ago in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Gen. George Washington wrote to John Hancock, President of the Continental Congress in Philadelphia:

It is not in the pages of History perhaps, to furnish a case like ours; to maintain a post within Musket Shot of the Enemy for Six months together, without—and at the same time to disband one Army and recruit another, within that distance, of Twenty odd British regiments, is more probably than ever was attempted; But if we succeed as well in the last, as we have heretofore in the first, I shall think it the most fortunate event of my whole life.

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As It is possible your may not yet have received his majesties most gracious speech, I do myself the honour to Inclose one, of many, which were sent out of Boston yesterday. It is full of rancour & resentment, and explicitly holds forth his Royal will to be, that vigorous measures must be pursued to deprive us of our constitutional rights & liberties

Source: “George Washington to John Hancock, 4 January 1776,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-03-02-0013. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Revolutionary War Series, vol. 3, 1 January 1776 – 31 March 1776, ed. Philander D. Chase. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1988, pp. 18–21.]

On this day 250 years ago in Quebec, the British buried Major General Richard Montgomery of the Continental Army, after retrieving his body from the snow covered street where he had fallen and confirming with American prisoners his identity. Word of Montgomery’s promotion to major general arrived after he was dead. In 1818, General Montgomery’s remains were reinterred to St. Paul’s Chapel of Trinity Church in New York City. You can visit Montgomery’s grave there in Manhattan today.

Source: https://www.americanhistorycentral.com/entries/quebec-invasion-1775/; https://www.americanrevolution.org/arnolds-expedition-americans-stand-their-ground/; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Montgomery