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Excerpt from The Campaign in Virginia, 1781, Vol. 1 of 2
Such a series of transactions evidently opens the way for abundant controversy and recrimination between the officers concerned. Was Cornwallis's march through the Carolinas and Virginia undertaken with Sir Henry Clinton's approbation or consent Upon his arrival in the Chesapeake, ought Clinton to have strongly reinforced him, even at the cost of aban doning New York or to have withdrawn his forces while there was time or, as he actually did, to have awaited events Was the unfortunate selection of York Town as headquarters the fault of Cornwallis or was he constrained by Clinton's instructions to occupy and fortify a good harbour Could the de fence have been better conducted and did Clinton use all possible Cxpedition and diligence in coming to Cornwallis's relief? These were the questions chie?y agitated in the pamphlets of which I have now to give a bibliographical account.
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