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Clinton, James

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Clinton, James, 1733–1812, American Revolutionary general, b. Orange co., N.Y.; brother of George Clinton and father of De Witt Clinton. He served in the French and Indian Wars French and Indian Wars, 1689–1763, the name given by American historians to the North American colonial wars between Great Britain and France in the late 17th and the 18th cent.
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 and early in the Revolution took part in the disastrous Quebec campaign. His most noted exploit was his heroic but futile defense of Fort Clinton (near Kingston, N.Y.) against the British drive up the Hudson valley under Sir Henry Clinton Clinton, Sir Henry, 1738?–1795, British general in the American Revolution, b. Newfoundland; son of George Clinton (1686?–1761). He was an officer in the New York militia and then in the Coldstream Guards.
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 in 1777. James Clinton later fought (1779) with Gen. John Sullivan against the Native Americans and served at Yorktown (1781).


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She is survived by two daughters, Anna Mikels and her husband, David, of Leominster and Penny Ann Lopez and her husband, Jose, of Florida; five sons, John Hoey and his wife, Tina, of Florida, Kenneth Hoey and his wife, Kendra, of Clinton, James Royal and his wife, Kathy, of South Carolina, Robert Royal of Florida, and David Givskud and his wife, Stacey, of Melrose; a sister, Virginia Talbot of Worcester; a brother, Irwin "Red" Brownson Jr.
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