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  1. Há 6 dias · Sir Henry Clinton held the command in America for four years, ending in disaster and defeat; his name was forever to be linked with the downfall of British control of the colonies. Historians have since shifted more blame onto Cornwallis.

  2. 9 de mai. de 2024 · In 1779, Sir Henry Clinton, commander-in-chief of the British army in North America, issued the Philipsburg Proclamation. An expansion of the earlier Dunmore Proclamation, the Philipsburg Proclamation stipulated that all enslaved people who escaped from Patriot owners would be freed if they could reach British lines, regardless of ...

  3. 18 de mai. de 2024 · John André was a British army officer who negotiated with the American general Benedict Arnold and was executed as a spy during the American Revolution (1775–83). Sent to America in 1774, André became chief intelligence officer to the British commander in chief, General Sir Henry Clinton, in New.

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  4. Há 5 dias · Battle of Bunker Hill, (June 17, 1775), first major battle of the American Revolution, fought in Charlestown (now part of Boston) during the Siege of Boston. Although the British eventually won the battle, it was a Pyrrhic victory that lent considerable encouragement to the revolutionary cause.

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  5. 21 de mai. de 2024 · British Commander-in-Chief Sir Henry Clinton extended the policy of appealing to African Americans in his Phillipsburg Proclamation of 1779 in which he offered security behind British lines to ‘every negro who shall desert the Rebel Standard.'”

  6. 21 de mai. de 2024 · To that end, Germain directed Sir Henry Clinton, the Commander of British forces in North America, to send a contingent to Penobscot Bay, one of the best natural anchorages on the Atlantic seaboard and establish “a province between the Penobscot and St. Croix rivers.”

  7. 3 de mai. de 2024 · SUMMARY. George Washington served as commander in chief of the Continental army during the American Revolution (1775–1783), as president of the United States Constitutional Convention (1787), and as first president of the United States (1789–1797). Born to a family of middling wealth, Washington’s formal education ended when he was about fifteen.

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