General Henry Clinton, having called in troops…

December 1779 CE

General Henry Clinton, having called in troops from Newport, has by late 1779 assembled a strong force for the next step in this strategy, an invasion of South Carolina.

Clinton takes personal command of this campaign, and the task force with fourteen thousand men sails south from New York at the end of the year.

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France, (Bourbon) Kingdom of View → Britain, Kingdom of Great View → New York, independent state of View → South Carolina, State of (U.S.A.) View → United States of America (US, USA) (Philadelphia PA) View →

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American Revolution View → American Revolutionary War, or American War of Independence View → American Revolutionary War, Southern theater of the View → Anglo-French War (1778–1783) View →

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