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Brief Summary: The Battle Of Savannah

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The Battle of Savannah Ivan M Chorn Utah Military Academy VP Campus Bravo 2 Michael J Graham 26 October 2017 ABSTRACT In this essay it will be talking about the British Army and German Hessians fought against a joint force of Americans and the French. How Casimir Pulaski and Benjamin Lincoln led to the outcome of the battle. How the British changed theatre of the war from the North to the South.The fortunes of war had given the Americans victory in campaigns in New England and the middle states, but the British expected aid from the backcountry loyalists of South. The plan of campaign contemplated a beginning in Georgia and a northward advance which would roll up the South. A beginning was made in this campaign by the capture of Savannah …show more content…

American Major General Robert Howe and his paltry force of between 650 and 900 men were severely outnumbered. Campbell also outflanked the Continental forces by locating a path through the swamp to the right of the American position. Howe ordered a retreat during the process, the Georgia took heavy losses when it was cut off from other forces. The Patriots lost 83 men and 483 were captured, while the British lost only 3 soldiers and another 10 soldiers were wounded. Up until July 11, 1782, Savannah remained in British control until they left. French and American forces held Savannah under siege from September 23 to October 18, 1779, but failed to reclaim the city. The French troops included 500 free Haitians of African descent, calling themselves the Chasseurs-Volontaires de Saint-Domingue. Soldiers of African descent fighting for the Patriots was an anomaly during the southern campaign–most American slaves attempted to flee and join British forces, as they had no desire to defend their Patriot masters’ right to enslave them. Many of the Volontaires themselves later went on to rebel against French control of Haiti. In fact, the Volontaires’ twelve-year-old drummer, Henri Christophe, commanded Haiti’s revolutionary

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