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| Tango01 | 10 Apr 2019 4:13 p.m. PST |
….START OF THE WINTER CAMPAIGN, NOVEMBER–JANUARY 1780–81 "As November 1780 begins, we find Cornwallis continuing to wait at Winnsborough, South Carolina, in the hope of being joined by Major Gen. Alexander Leslie, a junction on which the winter campaign to the northward depended. Bound for the Chesapeake and placed under the orders of Cornwallis, Leslie had sailed from New York on October 16 with a medley of some 1,900 troops and entered Hampton Road six days later. The principal objects of his expedition were to cooperate with Cornwallis, make a diversion in his favor, and establish a post on Elizabeth River. Complying with Cornwallis's tentative summons to join him, he did not quit the Chesapeake before November 22 and it was not till December 13 that he arrived off Charlestown[1] bar. His reinforcement, which was inadequately composed, required some remodelling on landing…."
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