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• 04 Jan 08
  

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  • battles
  • Siege of Charleston
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  • • major
    • strategic focus towards the Southern Colonies
    • the British
    • American Revolutionary War
    • As a defeat, it was the biggest loss of
    • Washington,
    • crushing blow
    • sub-commander General Lafayette
    • was cognizant of efforts to bring in the ^#16
      Kingdom of
      France against the British
      .
    • 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
    • Newport,
      Rhode
    • Sir Henry
      Clinton
    • Island
    • Lord
      Rawdon
    • In December, he sailed with 8,500 men to join Marc
      Prevost at Savannah

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