Round 3: Tossup 21

This person’s limp prevented him from commanding a militia he founded called the Kentish Guards. Shortly before the Gaspeé affair, this person and his brother Thomas filed a lawsuit against William Dudingston for seizing the sloop Fortune. This person presided over John André’s trial (-5[1])and execution for conspiring with Benedict Arnold. While working for this person’s widow at the Mulberry Grove plantation outside (*) Savannah, Eli Whitney invented (10[1])the cotton gin. This general pushed British forces out of South Carolina after battles at Hobrick’s Hill and Eutaw Springs. Charles Cornwallis fled north into Virginia after a pyrrhic victory against this general’s army at Guilford Court House. For 10 points, what Rhode Island-born general replaced Horatio Gates as the southern commander of the Continental Army? ■END■ (10[1]0[4])

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