British troops, who remained in Charles Town until December 1782, 14 months after Yorktown, were sent to forage for fresh meat for the British hospital in the still-captured city.

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… So that it is no wonder of Charles Town… be now a very great and flourishing Town, adorned with handsome & commodious buildings… amongst which the Church of St. Phillip, may justly be reckoned the finest structure in America.

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