Chapter II.

CAMPAIGN OF 1780.

Sir Henry Clinton arrives with an army of 12,000 men in South Carolina.
The General Assembly sitting in Charleston, break up.
Gen. Lincoln shuts himself up in the town, and Clinton lays siege to it.
Before the town is entirely hemmed in, Marion dislocates his ankle,
and retires into the country. The town capitulates.
Tarleton's career of slaughter. Defeat of Gen. Huger at Monk's Corner
and of Buford at the Waxhaws. Rising of the people in Williamsburgh,
and at Pedee. Gen. Marion sent to them as a commander. Gates, defeat.
Marion retakes 150 American prisoners at Nelson's Ferry. Maj. Wemyss
sent against him; he retreats to the White Marsh, in North Carolina.
Returns and defeats the tories at Black Mingo and the fork of Black river.
Attempt on Georgetown frustrated. Marion takes post at Snow Island.
Sumter's career. Ferguson's defeat. Spirit of the whigs begins to revive.



The year 1780, was the most eventful one, in the annals of South Carolina.
The late failure of the attack on Savannah; the little opposition
which Gen. Prevost met with, in a march of more than one hundred miles
through the state; the conduct of the planters, in submitting,
to save their property; and the well known weakness of the southern army;
all conspired to induce the enemy to believe, that Charleston,