Excerpt from The Siege of Charleston, by the British Fleet and Army Under the Command of Admiral Arbuthnot and Sir Henry Clinton, Which Terminated With the Surrender of That Place on the 12th of May, 1780

No further Attempt was made againfi Charlefton until after the unfuccefsful At tempt of the French and Americans againf'c Savannah in the Autumn of 1779, when the Departure of the French Fleet for the Weft Indies, and the apparent Wil lingnefs of Georgia to return to the Protection of the Britifh Power, appeared to favour a new Enterprife againfi South Carolina.

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