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In July 1776, on the shore here, General Andrew Lewis, commanding the Virginia forces, erected a battery at Cricket Hill facing a stockaded camp on Gwynn's Island established by Governor Lord Dunmore. Fire from this point damaged the camp and the British ships and forced the evacuation of the island. A little later Dunmore put out to sea.
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