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Henry Clinton was born on 16 April 1730, to Admiral George Clinton and Anne Carle, the daughter of a general. [1] Clinton claimed in a notebook found in 1958 to be born in 1730, and that evidence from English peerage records places the date of birth as 16 April. [1]
Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Clinton GCB GCH (9 March 1771 – 11 December 1829) was a British Army officer who served in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.He came from a family of soldiers.
Differences with British General William Howe led him to depart after the disastrous Battle of Trenton. Hesse-Kassel: Lieutenant General Wilhelm von Knyphausen replaced von Heister, and continued to lead the Hessian forces under Howe, and later Sir Henry Clinton, in the Philadelphia campaign. While being senior to all British generals beside ...
The Philipsburg Proclamation was issued by British Army General Sir Henry Clinton on 30 June 1779 to encourage slaves to run away and enlist in the Royal Forces. [1] [2] The proclamation, now a historical document, followed after Dunmore's Proclamation in 1775 and the establishment of the Royal Ethiopian Regiment in Virginia.
General Henry Clinton by Andrea Soldi. Washington's preference for a professional standing army rather than a militia had been another source of criticism. [20] He had seen his army dissolve in the fall of 1775 as short-term enlistments expired, and blamed his defeat in the Battle of Long Island in August 1776 in part on a poorly performing militia. [21]
On December 8, 1776, Britain's Lieutenant General Henry Clinton led an expedition from New York City to take control of Rhode Island. The British expeditionary forces under Brigadier General Richard Prescott, with several Hessian regiments of foot, landed and seized control of Newport, Rhode Island. [5]
The Battle of Monmouth on June 28, 1778, saw a colonial American army under Major General George Washington fight a British army led by Lieutenant General Sir Henry Clinton. After evacuating Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on June 18, Clinton intended to march his 13,000-man army to New York City.
Admiral George Clinton (Royal Navy officer) (1686–1761), British naval officer and colonial governor; General Henry Clinton (British Army officer, born 1730) (died 1795), British general during the American Revolutionary War