Siege of Charleston

Siege of Charleston
	Part of the American Revolutionary War
	; An illustration of the siege by Alonzo Chappel
Date	March 29, 1780 – May 12, 1780
Location	Charles Town, South Carolina, U.S.32°47′39″N 79°56′31″W / 32.79417°N 79.94194°W
Result	British victory
Belligerents
Great Britain ; Hesse-Kassel	United States ; France
Commanders and leaders
Sir Henry Clinton ; Charles Cornwallis ; Alexander Leslie ; Mariot Arbuthnot ; Henry Francis Evans	Benjamin Lincoln ; William Moultrie ; James Hogun ; William Woodford ; Charles Pinckney ; Abraham Whipple ; Louis Duportail
Strength
12,847 regulars and militia ; 4,500 sailors ; 6 ships of the line ; 8 frigates ; 4 armed galleys ; 90 transports	6,577 regulars, sailors and militia ; 3 frigates ; 5 sloops ; 1 schooner ; 1 brig ; 3 armed galleys
Casualties and losses
Land: 76 killed; 89 wounded; ; Sea: 23 killed; 28 wounded; ;	89 killed ; 138 wounded ; 5,466 captured; All ships captured

The Siege of Charleston was a major engagement and major British victory in the American Revolutionary War, fought in the environs of Charles Town (today Charleston), the capital of South Carolina, between March 29 and May 12, 1780. The British, following the collapse of their northern strategy in late 1777 and their withdrawal from Philadelphia in 1778, shifted their focus to the North American Southern Colonies. After approximately six weeks of siege, Major General Benjamin Lincoln, commanding the Charleston garrison, surrendered his forces to the British. It was one of the worst American defeats of the war.

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^ ^a ^b "The American Revolution in South Carolina – The Siege of Charlestown". Carolana.com. Retrieved 29 May 2018.
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^ Clodfelter, Micheal (2017). Warfare and Armed Conflicts: A Statistical Encyclopedia of Casualty and Other Figures, 1492–2015, 4th Ed. Jefferson, North Carolina: Mcfarland & Company. p. 129. ISBN 978-0786474707.
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[1] "Battle of Charleston ***". Landofthebrave.info. Retrieved 29 May 2018.^{[unreliable source?]}

[carolana.com-2] "The American Revolution in South Carolina – The Siege of Charlestown". Carolana.com. Retrieved 29 May 2018.

[John-3] Cite error: The named reference John was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[4] Clodfelter, Micheal (2017). Warfare and Armed Conflicts: A Statistical Encyclopedia of Casualty and Other Figures, 1492–2015, 4th Ed. Jefferson, North Carolina: Mcfarland & Company. p. 129. ISBN 978-0786474707.

[5] Greene, Francis Vinton (1911). The Revolutionary War and the Military Policy of the United States. New York Public Library. p. 210. ISBN 978-0722280089.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

[6] Morrill, Dan L (1993). Southern Campaigns of the American Revolution. Nautical & Aviation Publishing Company. p. 73. ISBN 978-1877853210.

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