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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 14: (search)
all its men for its own protection; the middle part was disaffected; the frontiers were menaced by savage tribes. Yet, without taking counsel of his officers, Lincoln, reluctant to abandon public property which he had not means to transport, yielded to the threats and urgency of the inhabi- Chap. XIV.} 1780. Feb. 26. tants of Charleston, and remained in their city, which no experienced engineer regarded as tenable. On the twenty-sixth, the British forces from the eastern side of St. John's island gained a view of the town, its harbor, the sea, and carefully cultivated plantations, which, after their fatigues, seemed to them a paradise. The best defence of the harbor was the bar at its outlet; and already on the twenty- 27. seventh, the officers of the continental squadron, which carried a hundred and fifty guns, reported their inability to guard it. Then, wrote Washington, the attempt to defend the town ought to have been relinquished. But Lincoln was intent only on strength