Tobacco War
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title:
Tobacco War
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The Tobacco War (1780–1781) occurred during the American Revolutionary War in Virginia when the British forces commanded by generals Cornwallis, Phillips, and Arnold, burned the colonists' tobacco. About 10,000 hogsheads of cured tobacco leaf were destroyed by the British. Each hogshead weighed about 1,000 lb (450 kg). The British wanted to win in the southern colonies by causing steep economic losses. They also wished to entirely disrupt the tobacco industry because the colonists used the tobac
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Conflict during the American Revolutionary War
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco_War
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2023-10-22T08:49:33Z
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