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    The siege of Fort Zeelandia (Chinese: 熱蘭遮城包圍戰; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Jia̍t-lân-jia Siâⁿ Pau-ûi-chiàn) of 1661–1662 ended the Dutch East India Company's rule over...
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    were reinforced by French forces under de Crillon, who took over command in early 1782. After a lull in the siege, during which the Franco-Spanish besiegers...
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  • Anglo-French War (1778–1783) Siege of Fort Henry (1782) – American Revolutionary War Siege of Cuddalore (1783) – Second Anglo-Mysore War Siege of Mangalore (1783–1784)...
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    the Sombrero, followed by Fort George. The Spanish troops established encampments and began extensive preparations for a siege. Hundreds of engineers and...
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    September 11, 1782, George Girty commanded a band of 150 Shawnee warriors under Simon Girty's direction in an attack against Fort Henry, the men marched...
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    1775, George Washington sent Henry Knox on a mission to bring the heavy artillery that had recently been captured at Fort Ticonderoga. In a technically...
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  • Battle of the Combahee River (category 1782 in the United States)
    Revolutionary War on August 27, 1782, near Beaufort, South Carolina, one of many such confrontations after the Siege of Yorktown to occur before the British...
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    Commander-in-Chief in America from 1778 to 1782. He was a Member of Parliament for many years due to the influence of his cousin Henry Pelham-Clinton, 2nd Duke of Newcastle...
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    Pickens and Henry "Light-horse Harry" Lee began to besiege nearby Augusta, Georgia. They immediately began siege operations, targeting the Star Fort, under...
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    Guyasuta and other Seneca warriors participated in the siege of Fort Pitt. When Colonel Henry Bouquet arrived with a relief column, Guyasuta joined Delaware...
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