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in number. He then started in pursuit of Lafayette, who, with about one thousand continental troops, was posted between Wilton and Richmond, waiting for re-enforcements from Pennsylvania. Lafayette, I think, cannot escape him, wrote Clinton to Germain. Clinton to Germain, 9 June, 1781. Out of this has been manufactured the groundless story that Cornwallis himself wrote: The boy cannot escape me. The youthful commander warily kept to the north of his pursuer, and, passing South and North Anna, went through the wilderness across the Rapidan, and on the seventh of June made a junc- June 7. tion with Wayne not far from Raccoon ford. Small as was his force, he compared the British in Virginia to the French occupation of Hanover in the seven years war, and confidently predicted analogous results. Cornwallis advanced as far as Hanover courthouse, then crossed South Anna, and, having failed in his first object, he sent out two detachments,—one of cavalry under Tarleton to break up the