Cut off
Cut off verb - To bring (as an action or operation) to an immediate end.
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New York was the keystone for Britain's "Divide and Conquer" strategy, in which they tried to push north up the Hudson River in order to cut off New England from the rest of the Thirteen Colonies.
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