The Vicious Defeat of the Americans

Jeannette Holland Austin
2 min readJul 12, 2022

12 March 1780.

The British siege in Charleston, South Carolina when it took possession of the harbor and city is known as one of the worst American defeats in history! See they were greatly outnumbered, the American commander, General Lincoln, refused to surrender to Sir Henry Clinton without the British…

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Jeannette Holland Austin

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