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Unknown Major Price's State of the number of British forces at the Southward and those returned since the reduction of Charlestown

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.00795 Author/Creator: Unknown Place Written: s.l. Type: Manuscript document Date: 6 July 1780 Pagination: 3 p. : docket ; 20.1 x 17 cm. Order a Copy

Refers to Charleston, South Carolina. Title from docket. Lists numbers of "Troops which arrived with Sr Henry Clinton," "One Hessian Regt," "Troops from Georgia," Reinforcements from New York," and "Troops which returned with Clinton."

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