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Four miles north on the James River, Benedict Arnold, ascending the river, was fired on by cannon on January 3, 1781. On January 10, returning, Arnold sent ashore there a force that was ambushed by George Rogers Clark. Fort Powhatan stood there in the War of 1812.
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