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Today episode 96 the Battle of Sullivan's Island.

Way back in episode 82, we left British General Clinton off the coast of North Carolina

awaiting the arrival of an army of loyalists who never came, and Aye

awaiting the arrival of an army of loyalists who never came, and a fleet-carrying regulars

from Britain who took forever to arrive.

In January 1776, General Clinton had left British occupied Boston and headed south.

He first stopped in New York. In New York Harbor, Clinton conferred with several

royal governors who had been ousted, but who were just sure

that if the army raised its standard, thousands of their loyalist subjects would flock to support the king.

This was also the visit that I mentioned back in episode

83 when Lord Drummond attempted to get Clinton to meet with peace

commissioners from the Continental Congress, and Clinton refused.

This was also the same visit I mentioned in episode 89

when Clinton simply told his old friend Charles Lee,

now serving as a general with the enemy in the Continental Army, that he was planning

to head down to the Carolinas and lead an attack there.

After that conversation, Lee got himself transferred to command a southern army to oppose Clinton.

So Clinton, no more revealing your plans to the enemy, okay?

After a lengthy stay, Clinton made his way down to Cape Fear in North Carolina, where he had expected to find an army of loyalists from the Carolina backcountry.

London had also promised to send several regiments of

regulars led by General Cornwallis who would become Clinton's second in

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