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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 14: (search)
ndred veterans, entered Charleston, having in twenty-eight days marched five hundred miles to certain captivity. On the ninth, Arbuthnot, taking advantage of a 9. gentle east wind, brought his ships into the harbor, without suffering from Fort Moultrie or returning its fire. The next day, the first parallel being com- 10. pleted, Clinton and Arbuthnot summoned the town to surrender. Lincoln answered: From duty and inclination I shall support the town to the last extremity. On the thirornwallis had arrived with nearly three 19. thousand men from New York; and the British had occupied the peninsula from the Cooper to the Wando; so that an evacuation was no longer pos- Chap. XIV.} 1780. May 6. sible. On the sixth of May, Fort Moultrie surrendered without firing a gun. That field intrenchments supported a siege for six weeks, was due to the caution of the besiegers more than to the vigor of the defence, which languished from an almost general disaffection of the citizens.