Capture of the 'Patriot' VA1783
The 'Patriot', 60-ton Virginia Navy armed schooner commanded by Lieut. James Watkins, was charged with the defense of Warwick Co. inhabitants then harassed by British plundering expeditions. In April 1781, in the James River offshore, the 'Patriot" was taken by a heavily-manned and armed Royal Navy sloop in disguise. She then joined Cornwallis' fleet in the York and passed to the French by terms of capitulation.`

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Greenesville County Z33

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Sussex County Z33

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Tarleton's Movements UM40
At this point Tarleton, the British cavalryman, crossed the Meherrin River, May 14, 1781. Sent ahead of Cornwallis's army, he had raided through Southampton and Greensville Counties.

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Gloucester County Z8
Area 223 Square Miles Formed in 1651 from York and named for Gloucester County, England. Bacon, The Rebel, died in this County, 1676. Gloucester Point was the outpost of Cornwallis at Yorktown, 1781.

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Gloucester County Z252
Area 223 Square Miles Formed in 1651 from York, and named for Gloucester County, England. Bacon, the rebel, died in this county, 1676. Gloucester Point was the outpost of Cornwallis at Yorktown, 1781.

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Cornwallis E12
The British Army under Gen. Cornwallis marching to Virginia defeated the local Militia at the town of Halifax, in May, 1781.

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Nottoway River Crossings UM16
Several important river crossings took place over the Nottoway River during two wars. Revolutionary War calvary commander Lt. Col. John Graves Simcoe lead British forces across the river in this area on 11 May 1781, as he rode south to join Gen. Charles Cornwallis. In mid May, Cornwallis marched north from North Carolina, crossed the Nottoway River nearby, and reached Peters- burg on 20 May. During the Civil War, at the end of Gen. James H. Wilson’s and Brig. Gen. August V. Kautz’s railroad raids, a portion of Gen. Wilson’s forces crossed the river nearby on 28 June 1864, on their way back to Union lines near Petersburg.

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Greensville County Z36
AREA 307 SQUARE MILES FORMED IN 1780 FROM BRUNSWICK, AND PROBABLY NAMED FOR SIR RICHARD GRENVILLE, LEADER OF THE SETTLEMENT ON ROANOKE ISLAND, 1585. CORNWALLIS PASSED THROUGH THIS COUNTY IN 1781.

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History at Prince George Courthouse K207
Lord Cornwallis, going toward the James in pursuit of Lafayette, passed here, May 24, 1781. A part of Grant’s Army passed here on the way to Petersburg, June, 1864. The place was occupied by Union Troops in 1864-65.

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