About: Siege of Croydon

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Cornwallis had led his army in retreat to the northern state of Croydon during the previous autumn. Penned up in the peninsula by Atlantean and French entrenchments, the British army could hold out against most assaults thanks to continuous resupply by the Royal Navy. The marquis recommended saps and parallels to be employed against the British works, and work had begun on the third parallel when winter arrived and froze the ground.

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rdfs:label	Siege of Croydon
rdfs:comment	Cornwallis had led his army in retreat to the northern state of Croydon during the previous autumn. Penned up in the peninsula by Atlantean and French entrenchments, the British army could hold out against most assaults thanks to continuous resupply by the Royal Navy. The marquis recommended saps and parallels to be employed against the British works, and work had begun on the third parallel when winter arrived and froze the ground.
dcterms:subject	Battles of the Atlantean War of Independence
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Partof	Atlantean War of Independence
Date	1778(xsd:integer)
Commander	Victor Radcliff Marquis de La Fayette (Atlantis) Charles Cornwallis (Atlantis)
Result	Atlantean/French victory
combatant	United States of Atlantis France (Atlantis) Britain (Atlantis)
Place	Atlantis Croydon
Conflict	Siege of Croydon
abstract	Cornwallis had led his army in retreat to the northern state of Croydon during the previous autumn. Penned up in the peninsula by Atlantean and French entrenchments, the British army could hold out against most assaults thanks to continuous resupply by the Royal Navy. The marquis recommended saps and parallels to be employed against the British works, and work had begun on the third parallel when winter arrived and froze the ground. Not long after New Year's Day 1778 a French fleet won a victory over the Royal Navy in the Atlantic, and arrived to close off Croydon to the sea. Cornwallis sent an officer under flag of truce to discuss terms of surrender with Radcliff. The two officers agreed to all the points - except Radcliff's insistence that Colonel Habakkuk Biddiscombe and members of his Horsed Legion be turned over on charges of treason against Atlantis. The British asked for a truce of 24 hours to discuss this point. During the truce Biddiscombe and some of his Horsed Legion managed to break out at the weakest point in the allied line. The next day, at noon, to the tune "The World Turned Upside Down", the British stacked arms between the Atlantean and French armies and surrendered. Cornwallis talked with Radcliff, whom he had last seen at the surrender of Nouveau Redon almost 15 years before.
is Conflict of	Siege of Croydon

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