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The people involved

British and colonial loyalists

• Marriot Arbuthnot (1711-1794; naval officer and colonial governor)
• Benedict Arnold (1741-1801; army officer)
• John Burgoyne (1723-1792; army officer, politician and playwright)
• Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester (1724-1808; army officer and colonial governor)
• General Sir Henry Clinton (1730-1795; army general)
• Henry Fiennes Pelham-Clinton, 2nd Duke of Newcastle under Lyne (1720-1794)
• Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis (1738-1805; army officer and colonial governor)
• Robert Digby (1732-1814; naval admiral)
• Thomas Gage (1720-1787; army officer and governor of Massachusetts)
• George Sackville Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville (1716-1785; army officer and politician)
• Sir John Macnamara Hayes, 1st Baronet (c.1750-1809; military physician)
• William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe (1729-1814; army officer)
• Richard Howe, Earl Howe (1726-1799; naval officer)
• Charles Mellish (1737-1797; landowner)

French and American combatants

• Jean Baptiste Charles Henri Hector d'Estaing, Comte d'Estaing (1729-1794; French admiral)
• François Joseph de Grasse, Comte de Grasse (1722-1788; French admiral)
• Marie J.P. Lafayette, Marquess de Lafayette (1757-1834; French soldier and politician)
• Donatien Rochambeau (1750-1813; French general)
• Jacques-Melchior Saint-Laurent, Comte de Barras (c.1719-c.1793; French admiral)
• George Washington (1732-1799; revolutionary army officer and first president of the United States of America)

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