Lieutenant General Charles Cornwallis, commanding the Army of Great Britain, North America—contrary to the orders of his superior officer—Lieutenant General Henry Clinton, leaves Wilmington, North Carolina to take the war into the Commonwealth of Virginia.
[restored 8/14/2021]
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References:
Calvin D. Linton, ed. The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America, 1776-1976, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 30.
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