biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (c.1738–95)
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| biography:
| Soldier, born in Newfoundland, E Canada, the son of the Newfoundland governor. He served with distinction in the Seven Years' War (1756–63), and was promoted major-general in 1772. Sent to America in 1775, he fought at Bunker Hill, and in 1776 was repulsed in an attack on Charleston. After Burgoyne's surrender in 1778, Clinton succeeded Howe as commander-in-chief. In 1780 he captured Charleston and the entire Southern army, but after Cornwallis' capitulation at Yorktown in 1781 he resigned his command and returned to England. |
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