South Boston VII
South Boston VII
Meanwhile, Washington's forces succeeded in battling the icy
conditions to build gun emplacements on top of Signal Tree Hill.
By morning they had the British warships in their sights.
Howe awoke to find American troops atop the Hill. He wrote
to the lord Dartmouth: “It must have been the employment of
twelve thousand men. The rebels have done more in one
night than my whole army would have done in a month.”