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Siege of Charleston

American Revolution [1780]
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Date:
1780
Location:
Charleston
South Carolina
United States
Participants:
United Kingdom
United States
Context:
American Revolution

Siege of Charleston, (1780) during the American Revolution, British land and sea campaign that cut off and forced the surrender of Charleston, S.C., the principal port city of the southern American colonies. Charleston in 1776 had withstood attack on Fort Sullivan (renamed Fort Moultrie because its defense had been overseen by Gen.William Moultrie) by British naval and army forces commanded by Adm. Peter Parker and Gen. Henry Clinton. In 1779 it repulsed another, led by Gen. Augustus Prevost. But in the spring of 1780 Clinton succeeded where he had failed before. At this stage of the Revolution, the British war ...(100 of 309 words)

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