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14 de fev. de 2020 · Henry Clinton. Henry Clinton was a British general who fought in the American Revolution. He was Commander-in-Chief at the time that the colonies were lost. Not much is known of his early life and few details are known of his life after the war. Sir Henry Clinton | public domain courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. He was born April 16, 1730.
Frederick Henry Clinton-Baddeley (1794–1879), Major-General der britischen Armee und Geologe. Nachfahren Clintons in direkter Linie über seinen Sohn William Clinton-Baddeley waren die Schauspielerinnen Angela Baddeley (1904–1976) und Hermione Baddeley (1906–1986), beide hießen mit eigentlichem Nachnamen „Clinton-Baddeley“.
Sir Henry Clinton (ca. 1738-1795) was commander-in-chief of the British armies during the crucial years of the American Revolution. Henry Clinton was the only son of George Clinton, governor of colonial New York. He entered the military, serving first in the New York militia and then in 1751 as a regular army lieutenant in the Coldstream Guards.
The British lost 26 killed, 93 wounded, and one missing. The Battle of Stono Ferry had little, if any, impact on Germain’s southern strategy or the Revolutionary War. Prevost’s rearguard under Maitland abandoned the redoubts as intended and retreated down the coast to Beaufort, while the rest of Prevost’s forces continued to Savannah. In ...
Sir Henry Clinton believed that the War would be one of attrition, in which Congress would be brought to its senses by bankruptcy. The element missing from this calculation was the entry of the French into the war in 1778, which converted a local difficulty (from the British point of view) into a conflict fought across the globe.
27 de abr. de 2021 · SUBSCRIBE! “My fate is hard,” Sir Henry Clinton remarked after learning that he had been named commander of the British army in May 1778, adding that he expected to someday bear “a considerable portion of the blame” for Britain’s “inevitable” lack of success. [1] There were good reasons for Clinton’s pessimism.
Summary Creator: Clinton, Henry, Sir, 1738?-1795 Abstract: The Henry Clinton papers contain the correspondence, records, and maps of Henry Clinton, who served under Thomas Gage and William Howe between 1775 and 1778, and was commander-in-chief of the British forces in North America from 1778 to 1782.
