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Excerpt from A Popular History of the United States of America, Vol. 2: From the Discovery of the American Continent to the Present Time
Howe and his army spent their winter in Boston as best they could, suffering greatly from want of supplies. Fuel was obtained by pulling down houses, and the poorer class of inhabitants were sent out of the city, in order to decrease the consumption of food, Three companies, however, of Loyal American Associators were formed and, spite of puritanism, balls and a theatre were got up by the British officers, and the largest of their meeting-houses was turned into a riding-school.
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