Thomas Burke

Thomas Burke (c. 1747 – 2 December 1781) was the Irish-born Governor of North Carolina during the American Revolutionary War.
In 1781, he was captured by the British colonels Hector McNeill and David Fanning. The Colonial Assassins launched a rescue attempt known as the , and assassinated McNeill, but failed to retrieve him.
==References==
*Assassin's Creed III
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