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A Short History of the United States

CHAPTER 16
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In these wonderful campaigns with a few good soldiers Greene had forced the British from the Southern states.

He had lost every battle.

He had won every campaign.
[Sidenote: Lafayette and Cornwallis, 1781.] 163.

Cornwallis in Virginia, 1781 .-- There were already two small armies in Virginia,--the British under Arnold, the Americans under Lafayette.

Cornwallis now marched northward from Wilmington and added the troops in Virginia to his own force; Arnold he sent to New York.
Cornwallis then set out to capture Lafayette and his men.


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