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lose any territory but the British
successfully entered New York to
resupply. On July 8th, the French at
sent a fleet with Comte d'Estaing
to the Atlantic coast to fight off
the British. The attacks against the
British however failed and was meet
with an abrupt halt with a stalemate
in the North. The American forces
suffered a staggering number of
setbacks from 1779 to 1781, which
include defeats by General Benedict
Arnold to the British and some
of the first betrayals against the