Lieutenant General Charles Cornwallis, commanding 7,000 regulars of the Army of Great Britain—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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