Henry Clinton

<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">Stickler for a point of honor, the General marched to defeat and helped to lose a war</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Had a tempest not thwarted his plans, George Washington might have lost the Revolution in the first major operation he commanded</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> In reprisal for a Tory atrocity, Washington ordered the hanging of a captive British officer chosen by lot. He was nineteen.</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> Defeated at Saratoga, Burgoyne’s troops faced nearly five years of enforced exile in a hostile countryside</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> Courtly, gallant, handsome, and bold, John Laurens seemed the perfect citizen-soldier of the Revolution. But why did he have to seek death so assiduously?</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck">Without his brilliance at espionage, the revolution could not have been won.</span></p>