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Siege of Charleston
Siege of Charleston, South Carolina
The Siege of Charleston
5,000 American soldiers were surrounded and forced to surrender at Charleston, South Carolina as the British opened their “Southern Campaign” of the Revolutionary War. As British forces moved into the area, civil war between patriots and loyalists spread through the Carolinas.
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