Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Charleston map showing the distribution of British forces during the siege Siege of Charleston map 1780 A sketch of the operations before Charlestown, the capital of South Carolina 1780 Siege. Cutting the city off from relief, Clinton began a siege on 1 April, 800 yards from the American fortifications located at today's Marion Square.
A copy of General Henry Clinton's 1780 map of the siege of Charleston, showing the location of Haddrel's Point, where Hogun died, at far right. In November 1779, Hogun took command of the North Carolina Brigade of the North Carolina Line, composed of the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th North Carolina Regiments.
Major operations in the South during 1780. Clinton moved against Charleston, blockading the harbor in March 1780 and building up about 10,000 troops in the area. His advance on the city was uncontested; the American naval commander, Commodore Abraham Whipple, scuttled five of his eight frigates in the harbor to make a boom for its defense. [29]
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us; Pages for logged out editors learn more
General Sir Henry Clinton arrived before Charleston, South Carolina on 1 April 1780 and began siege preparations as the opening move in British plan to gain control over the Carolinas. The city was defended by Continental Army troops under the command of General Benjamin Lincoln. Even after the British operations were underway, troops continued ...
When the American Revolutionary War broke out in 1775, the city of Charlestown, in the Province of South Carolina, was a center of commerce in southern North America. The city's citizens joined other colonists in opposing the British parliament's attempts to tax them, and militia recruitment increased when word arrived of the April 1775 Battles of Lexington and Concord. [4]
A 1733 map of Charleston ... and the Siege of Charleston was the ... Gen. Clinton approached the town via James Island and began his siege on April 1, 1780, with ...
The Siege of Charleston (29 March - 12 May 1780) during the American Revolutionary War; The Battle of Charleston (1861) (19 August 1861), a battle in Missouri during the American Civil War also known as the Battle of Bird's Point; The Battle of Charleston (1862) (13 September 1862), a battle in Virginia (now West Virginia) during the American ...