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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 5: (search)
utes of South Carolina, i. 150; IV. 452. The planters of South Carolina still partook of their usual pastimes and cares; while the British ministry, resigning the hope of reducing the north, indulged the expectation of conquering all the states to the south of the Susquehanna. Germain to Clinton, 8 March, 1778. For this end the British commander-in-chief at New York was ordered to despatch before October, if possible, a thousand men to re-enforce Pensacola, and three thousand to take Savannah. Two thousand more were destined as a re-enforcement to St. Augustine. Thus strengthened, General Prevost would be able to march in triumph from East Florida across lower Georgia. The new policy was inaugurated by dissensions between the minister for America in England and the highest British officials in America, and was fol- Chap. V.} 1778. lowed by never-ending complaints. Lord Carlisle and his associate commissioners deprecated the seeming purpose of enfeebling the establishment
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 13: (search)
ight skirmishes, he led back the survivors to Savannah. Immediately after his return, on the twen soon afterwards, passing the bar, approached Savannah. Relying on the difficulties of the ground, arched as a conqueror across lower Georgia to Savannah, reducing Sunbury on the way and capturing ite river, undertook to lead his troops against Savannah by way of Augusta, leaving only a thousand mione. Georgia had fallen; the country between Savannah and Charleston was overrun; the British confinnounced his readiness to assist in reducing Savannah; but as there was neither har- Chap. XIII.} joy in the fixed belief, that the garrison of Savannah would lay down their arms. In ten days the e eighth of October the reduction Oct. 8. of Savannah seemed still so far distant, that the naval o dwellers near the sea between Charleston and Savannah were shaken in their allegiance, not knowing the end of three months after the capture of Savannah, all the property, real and personal, of the
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 14: (search)
defended within the limits of the city was very extensive; and Lincoln commanded less than two Feb. 3. thousand effective men. On the third of February, 1780, the general assembly of South Carolina intrusted the executive of the state with power to do all things necessary to secure its liberty, safety, and happiness, except taking away the life of a citizen without legal trial. South Carolina, Statutes at Large, IV. 505. But the calls on the militia were little heeded; the defeat before Savannah had disheartened the people. The southern part of the state needed 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
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 15: (search)
rter belonging to the volunteers of Ireland, and five guineas only if they bring him in alive. The genuineness of the letter is unquestioned. The chain of posts for holding South Carolina consisted of Georgetown, Charleston, Beaufort, and Savannah on the sea; Augusta, Ninety-Six, and Camden in the interior. Of these Camden was the most im- Chap. XV.} 1780. July. portant, for it was the key between the north and south; by a smaller post at Rocky Mount, it kept up a communication with Nis. A general revolt in the public mind against British authority invited Gates onwards. To the encouragements of others the general added his own illusions; he was confident that Cornwallis, with detached troops from his main body, was gone to Savannah, Kapp's Kalb, 213. and from his camp on the Pedee he announced on the fourth, by 4. a proclamation, that their late triumphant and insulting foes had retreated with precipitation and dismay on the approach of his numerous, well-appointed, an
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 16: (search)
way to Augusta to receive the presents which were to stimulate their activity. Aware of their coming, Clark, a fugitive from Georgia, forced his way back with one hundred riflemen; having joined to them a body of woodsmen, he defeated the British garrison under Colonel Brown at Augusta, and captured the costly presents designed for the Cherokees. The moment was critical; for Cornwallis, in his eagerness to draw strength to his own army, had not left a post or a soldier between Augusta and Savannah, and the alienated people had returned most reluctantly to a state of obedience. With a corps of one hundred provincials and one hundred Chap. XVI.} 1780. Sept. Cherokees, Brown maintained a position on Garden Hill for nearly a week, when he was rescued by Cruger from Ninety-Six. At his approach, the Americans retired. On the pursuit some of them were scalped and some taken prisoners. Of the latter, Captain Ashby and twelve others were hanged under the eyes of Brown; thirteen who were
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 24: (search)
Lieutenant-Colonel Brown, the commander, had himself hanged thirteen American prisoners, and delivered citizens of Georgia to the Cherokees to suffer death with all the exquisite tortures which savage barbarity could contrive; but on his way to Savannah an escort protected him from the inhabitants whose houses he had burned, whose Chap. XXIV.} 1781. May 22. relations he had hanged. On the twenty-second of May, Greene, with Kosciuszko for his engineer, and nine hundred and eighty-four men, ted not only by battle, but by disease, regained his old position on the heights of Santee. He had been in command less than nine months, and in that short time the three southern states were recovered excepting only Wilmington, Charleston, and Savannah. His career had not been marked by victories, but he always gained the object for which he risked an engagement. He says of himself that he would fight, get beaten, and fight again. He succeeded in driving Cornwallis out of the southern state
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 27: (search)
28. to his agent the verbal instruction: If America is independent, she must be so of the whole world, with no ostensible, tacit, or secret connection with France. Canada could not be ceded. It was reasonable to expect a free trade, unencumbered with duties, to every part of America. All debts due to British subjects were to be secure, and the loyalists to be restored to a full enjoyment of their rights and privileges. As a compensation for the restoration of New York, Charleston, and Savannah, the river Penobscot might be proposed for the eastern boundary of New England. Finally, he said, tell Dr. Franklin candidly and confidentially Lord Shelburne's situation with the king; that his lordship will make no use of it but to keep his word with mankind. With these instructions, Oswald returned immediately to Paris, bearing from Shelburne to Franklin a most friendly letter, to which the king had given his thorough approval. With the European belligerents the communication was nec
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 28: (search)
til they were completely shut up in Savan- May 21. nah. A body of British cavalry and infantry went out four miles from Savannah to escort a strong party of Creeks and Choctaws into the town. In the following night, he threw himself with inferior force between them and Savannah, and, attacking them by surprise, totally defeated and dispersed them. At Sharon, five miles from Savannah, at half-past 1 in the morning of the twenty-fourth June 24. of June, a numerous horde of Creek warriors, headSavannah, at half-past 1 in the morning of the twenty-fourth June 24. of June, a numerous horde of Creek warriors, headed by their ablest chiefs and a British officer, surprised Chap. XXVIII.} 1782. June. the camp of Wayne, and for a few moments were masters of his artillery. Wayne marshalled his troops, and, under a very heavy fire of small-arms and hideous yellotism revived in the rural population of Georgia; and its own civil government was restored. On the eleventh of July, Savannah was evacuated, July 11. the loyalists retreating into Florida, the regulars to Charleston. Following the latter, Wayne