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• battles
• major
• Siege of Charleston
• strategic focus towards the Southern Colonies
• the British
• American Revolutionary War
• As a defeat, it was the biggest loss of
• Washington,
• crushing blow
• was cognizant of efforts to bring in the ^#16
  Kingdom of
  France against the British
  .
• sub-commander General Lafayette
• troops suffered to the Continental Army in the war
• Kingdom of France against the British
• General Washington avoided attempts
• to match force on force and adroitly
• avoided getting his forces pinned strategically so the
• superior British communications (SLOC) could
• [edit]
  Background
• 1777 to 1778
• dopted by Washington leading
• British in 1779 immensely increased in the
• following year, when they victoriously swept up through South and North
  
• 1779
• Sir Henry
  Clinton
• Newport,
  Rhode
• Island
• Lord
  Rawdon
• In December, he sailed with 8,500 men to join Marc
  Prevost at Savannah