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Vor 5 Tagen · The Battle of Monmouth Court House. June 28, 1778 in Monmouth, New Jersey. On June 18, at 3:00 A.M., Lt. Gen. Henry Clinton began evacuating his forces out of Philadelphia to move to New York City. Since France entered the war, it was possible that the French Navy could blockade the mouth to the Delaware River, cutting off Philadelphia.
Vor einem Tag · Henry Pelham-Clinton, 4th Duke of Newcastle: 1785–1851 1812 Lord Lieutenant of Nottinghamshire 640 Arthur Wellesley, 1st Marquess of Wellington: 1769–1852 1813 Later Duke of Wellington Prime Minister 1828–1830, 1834 641 Alexander I, Emperor and Autocrat of all the Russias: 1777–1825 1813 642 Louis XVIII, King of France: 1755–1824 1814 643
Vor 4 Tagen · Upon the capture of Charleston in 1780, General Henry Clinton, the British Commander in Chief of North America, took him prisoner. He spent several months aboard a prison ship. General George Washington later appointed him to a commission to audit the accounts of the Continental Army.
Vor 3 Tagen · George Washington (February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799) was an American Founding Father, military officer, and politician who served as the first president of the United States from 1789 to 1797. Appointed by the Second Continental Congress as commander of the Continental Army in 1775, Washington led Patriot forces to victory in the ...
Vor 2 Tagen · The American Revolution (1775–83) was an insurrection carried out by 13 of Great Britain’s North American colonies, which won political independence and went on to form the United States of America. The war followed more than a decade of growing estrangement between the British crown and many North American colonists.
- The American Revolution—also called the U.S. War of Independence—was the insurrection fought between 1775 and 1783 through which 13 of Great Britai...
- On the ground, fighting in the American Revolution began with the skirmishes between British regulars and American provincials on April 19, 1775, f...
- The American Revolution was principally caused by colonial opposition to British attempts to impose greater control over the colonies and to make t...
- Until early in 1778, the American Revolution was a civil war within the British Empire, but it became an international war as France (in 1778) and...
- In the early stages of the rebellion by the American colonists, most of them still saw themselves as English subjects who were being denied their r...
Vor 5 Tagen · After the fall of the city, he was appointed a Brevet Major of Militia with the duty of raising local militia to assist the British Army. He and Tarleton had become friends during the campaign and Tarleton wrote to Lt. General Henry Clinton requesting that he be reassigned to him as a Major of Legion Cavalry. This was granted as of August 6, 1780.
Vor 3 Tagen · He quotes a letter recommending him for promotion which was written by Gen. Gould, the Commanderin-Chief in Carolina, to Sir Henry Clinton, after an action at Shewbrick's Plantation on 17 July, 1781, in which the General says that Capt. Skerrett received six balls, that his humanity to the wounded after the action was as conspicuous as his conduct, and "that he is this day one of the strongest ...
