British Evacuate Philadelphia
Choosing to concentrate his armies in New York, new British Commander-in-Chief Sir Henry Clinton and his 15,000 troops abandon Philadelphia. American forces under Benedict Arnold retake the city the next day. Congress returns a week later.
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