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The “Ethiopian Regiment” was then mustered, having ramifications far beyond this proclamation. Many Black loyalist regimes were created following the 1779 Phillipsburg Proclamation, issued by Sir Henry Clinton, which was more wide-ranging than Dunmore’s edict as it covered all of the colonies. <ref> Horne, The Counterrevolution of 1776, 219-52. </ref>
==='''The Impact of African American Military Service'''===