Charleston Falls: Worst Continental Army Defeat of the Revolution
British forces seize Charleston, South Carolina, capturing over 5,000 Continental soldiers in the war's most devastating single loss for the Americans. This crushing blow effectively ends organized American resistance in the southern colonies for nearly two years and forces the Continental Army to retreat into Virginia.
May 12, 1780
246 years ago
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Continental Army
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Charleston, South Carolina
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South Carolina
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Benjamin Lincoln
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Henry Clinton (British Army officer, born 1730)
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