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 and execution for conspiring with Benedict Arnold. While working for this person’s widow at the Mulberry Grove plantation outside (*) Savannah, Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin. This general pushed British forces out of South Carolina after battles at Hobrick’s Hill (10[1])and Eutaw Springs. (10[1])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])

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