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The New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser
Portsmouth, Exeter, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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A New York paper reports Lord Cornwallis has fortified York and Gloucester in Virginia as impregnable, but commentary doubts this due to geography and French naval control, predicting his capture or destruction.
Merged-components note: Direct textual continuation of a paragraph from a New York paper regarding Cornwallis's fortifications; relabeled from 'story' to 'domestic_news' to match brief war reporting style.
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fort, in Virginia, impregnable. [How this could be done, must be inconceivable to any person acquainted with those places, which are assailable from every quarter. The river there is about a mile wide, and sufficiently deep for the largest ships; the ground clear of stones, and elevated about 50 feet above the water: and, as the French fleet have command of the Bay, and all the rivers below, and there is nothing to hinder the approach of our troops, on either side of the river, there is no human probability, that Cornwallis and his troops can escape captivity, or that destruction they have justly merited.]
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Domestic News Details
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York And Gloucester, Virginia
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predicted captivity or destruction of cornwallis and his troops
Event Details
Report from New York paper that Lord Cornwallis has made posts at York and Gloucester impregnable, with skeptical commentary on feasibility due to terrain, river access, and French fleet control allowing approach of allied troops.