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Craney Island lies 2 miles down and across the Elizabeth River from this point. There on June 22, 1813, the Virginia Militia under General Robert B. Taylor of Norfolk, without losing a man, defeated 4000 British troops who had come to destroy Norfolk and Portsmouth. Repulsed at Craney Island, they wreaked their vengeance on Hampton, which was taken, pillaged, and well-nigh destroyed.
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