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• 04 Jan 08
  

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  • battles
  • Siege of Charleston
  • major
  • strategic focus towards the Southern Colonies
  • American Revolutionary War
  • the British
  • As a defeat, it was the biggest loss of
  • crushing blow
  • Washington,
  • 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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