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The War Years (1775-1783) October 8, 2014 August 28, 2016

Fanning Outfoxes Marion

by Hershel Parker

When news of Lord Cornwallis’s surrender at Yorktown on October 19, 1781 arrived in southeastern North Carolina well into November, the war there did…

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