History of the United States I / Unit 6 USH1 0771 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Siege of Charleston
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The idea
Eight thousand British soldiers besieged Charleston for six weeks in April seventeen eighty, and General Benjamin Lincoln surrendered.
In practice
The largest American loss of the entire war, with prisoners held in jails and British prison ships in the harbour.
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General Sir Henry Clinton set up military government and ordered Cornwallis to subdue the colony.
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