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An Account of the Siege of Charleston, South Carolina, in 1780 (Classic Reprint).cWilmot G Desaussure
An Account of the Siege of Charleston, South Carolina, in 1780 (Classic Reprint)
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Author: Wilmot G Desaussure
Number of Pages: 38 pages
Published Date: 27 Sep 2015
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Publication Country: United States
Language: English
Type: Pdf
ISBN: 9781332095957
File Name: An.Account.of.the.Siege.of.Charleston,.South.Carolina,.in.1780.(Classic.Reprint).pdf
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Excerpt from An Account of the Siege of Charleston, South Carolina, in 1780 The British campaigns of 1776-1777 not having resulted in the Northern States so successfully as the British commanders had anticipated, in 1778 they began to turn their attention to the Southern States, hoping to subjugate these and restore them to their allegiance to the British Crown. In pursuance of this plan an expedition was undertaken against Georgia, which resulted in the capture of Savannah, its capital, on 29th December, 1778. During 1779, sending troops into the interior of Georgia, the futile attempt of Gen. Prevost to capture Charleston by surprise, and the defence of Savannah against the siege laid to it by the combined forces of America and France, and which resulted so disastrously to the American cause, prevented any very determined efforts by the British in the prosecution of the proposed plan of campaign. Stedman, in the History of the American War, says: "Sir Henry Clinton having been cramped in his operations by the proceedings of the French fleet under the Count d'Estaing, whose unsuccessful attack upon Savannah, together with his final departure from the American coast, has already been related, no sooner received certain information of the departure of d'Estaing than he set on foot an expedition, the object of which was the taking of Charleston and the reduction of the Province of South Carolina. The troops designed for this expedition were immediately embarked on board the transports; and these escorted by Admiral Arbuthnot with an adequate naval force sailed from Sandy Hook on the 26th December, 1779. Sir Henry Clinton (British Commander-in-chief in America) accompanied the expedition, leaving the garrison at New York under the command of Lieut.-Gen. Knyphausen. The passage might have been expected to be performed in ten days, but such was the uncommon severity of the season that the fleet was very soon separated and driven out of its course by the tempestuous weather, and scarcely any of the ships arrived at Tybee, the appointed place of rendezvous, before the end of January. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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