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This week episode 283, advance on Petersburg. I finished up last week with the

arrival of General William Phillips in Portsmouth, Virginia in March of 1781.

Now initially the British commander back in New York, General Henry Clinton,

had dispatched forces to Virginia in hopes of disrupting American supplies to the Southern Army and creating a friendly port for the British Navy.

But after Arnold's successful raid on Richmond, it became apparent that more aggressive action in Virginia might actually pay off for the British.

So Clinton sent General Phillips to take command from Arnold in Virginia and see if there was a chance

that Virginia might fall to British authority. As everyone on both sides quickly

discovered, Virginia's defenses were a mess. To put it charitably, the militia was ineffective. The state government seemed

unwilling to take any steps to defend the state or support those who could.

The Continental Army under General Lafayette was still up in Maryland and even if it could manage to get into Virginia

it was only about one-third the size of the British force now under General Phillips.

Clinton's decision to send General William Phillips and several thousand more soldiers

to Virginia was evidence that he thought there was some promise for more military action in the state.

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