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The Daily Dispatch: March 13, 1862., [Electronic resource], From Savannah. (search)
nly city, and has become the centre of pulsation for the commercial world of Georgia, and famed for the intelligence and the refinement of its citizens. The siege of Savannah, conducted on the part of the Americans by G. n. Lincoln and Count D' Estaing, was a proof of how much energy and skill might effect. The British force, inferior in number, with a naturally weak position, especially in the centre, history tells us, rendered the works almost impregnable by assault, by diligent and unremitting labor, and compelled the American forces to retire from the siege. Such was the position in 1779. The situation is not materially different now; the besieged then were without a navy, as we are to-day, and D' Estaing's fleet were then lying in St. Augustine Creek, at Thunderbolt, nearly in the same place as that which the Yankees ventured in approach but two months since; we have, then, every reason to feel confident of the result of the present attempt of the foe to possess himself