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“FORMER LOYALISTS TO THE CROWN WERE SOMETIMES HUNTED DOWN AND BEATEN BY SELF-STYLED PATRIOTS”

Yorktown. It’s a name seared on to the brain of all lovers of US history. When a combination of American and French troops launched a siege upon the Virginia tobacco port in September 1781, they not only forced the British garrison stationed there

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