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This week, we remember the British fleet's arrival at Cape Fear, North Carolina, on April 18th, 1776.

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Months before Britain evacuated Boston, British General William Howe sent his second in command, General Henry

Clinton, to move south. Clinton planned to meet up with a loyalist army in North Carolina.

The British were also sending a fleet from Ireland, commanded by Commodore Peter Parker,

also transporting an army of regulars under the command of General Charles Cornwallis.

General Clinton's transport ships had arrived off the coast of Cape Fear in North Carolina in mid-March.

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