Second Series.
Sir Henry Clinton. General Sir Henry Clinton was the most brilliant strategist in the British military; and, had Americans not been superior in virtue to the men of all other nations, his plan of placing Cornwallis’ army on a peninsula surrounded on three sides by deep water ideally suited to occupation by a large French fleet, and having on the fourth a narrow land passage easily blocked by a relatively small force of American and French soldiers, could not possibly have failed.