Dorchester, formerly a separate town of Massachusetts, 4 miles S. of Boston, was in 1869 annexed to that city. The fortification of Dorchester Heights by Washington, in March 1776, compelled the evacuation of Boston by the British.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 4: Dionysius to Friction, p. 60
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