After a six-week siege, Major General Benjamin Lincoln, commanding a garrison of 5,000 regulars of the Continental Army surrenders Charles Town (a.k.a. Charleston) South Carolina to Lieutenant General Henry Clinton, of the Army of Great Britain. This the largest capitulation of the war by the united States.
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“Chronology of Events, 1774-1804,” from The Debate on the Constitution, two volumes, Bernard Bailyn, ed., (New York: Library of America, 1992), 2:1035.
Americans suffer worst defeat of revolution at Charleston – May 12, 1780 – HISTORY.com
www.history.com/this-day-in-history/americans-suffer-worst-defeat-of-revolution-at-charleston
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