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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 14: (search)
hree 19. thousand men from New York; and the British had occupied the peninsula from the Cooper to the Wando; so that an evacuation was no longer pos- Chap. XIV.} 1780. May 6. sible. On the sixth of May, Fort Moultrie surrendered without firing a gun. That field intrenchments supported a siege for six weeks, was due to the caution of the besiegers more than to the vigor of the defence, which languished from an almost general disaffection of the citizens. John Laurens to his father, 25 May, 1780. On the twelfth, after the British had mounted can- 12. non in their third parallel, had crossed the wet ditch and advanced within twenty-five yards of the American works, ready to assault the town by land and water, Lincoln signed a capitulation. A proposal to allow the men of South Carolina, who did not choose to reside under British rule, twelve months to dispose of their property, was not accepted. The continental troops and sailors became prisoners of war until exchanged; the