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American Revolution Podcast

ARP247 Siege of Charleston

American Revolution Podcast

Michael Troy

History, Education

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

The British under General Henry Clinton launch a full scale invasion to capture Charleston South Carolina. It takes months to move the army into place. Meanwhile the Americans under General Benjamin Lincoln prepare to meet the attack. Blog https://blog.AmRevPodcast.com includes a complete transcript, as well as pictures, and links related to this week's episode. Book Recommendation of the Week: Partisans and Redcoats: The southern conflict that turned the tide of the American Revolution, by Walter Edgar (or borrow on archive.org). Online Recommendation of the Week: Carolana: The American Revolution in South Carolina: https://carolana.com/SC/Revolution/home.html Join the Facebook group, American Revolution Podcast: https://www.facebook.com/groups/132651894048271 Follow the podcast on Twitter @AmRevPodcast Join the podcast mail list: https://mailchi.mp/d3445a9cd244/american-revolution-podcast-by-michael-troy  ARP T-shirts and other merch: http://tee.pub/lic/AmRevPodcast Support this podcast on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/AmRevPodcast or via PayPal http://paypal.me/AmRevPodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This week, episode 237, The Siege of Charleston.

1:04.8

It's been a while since we discussed the war in the South.

1:07.7

We last left them in episode 234 when a combined French and American forest attempted to recapture Savannah, Georgia from the British

1:16.8

outpost there.

1:18.7

The British managed to hold out and the French sailed for New England. Continental General Benjamin Lincoln was stuck with a relatively small southern army

1:28.0

with which he hoped to protect South Carolina and hopefully find a way to recapture Georgia for the Americans.

1:35.0

General Lincoln of course was well aware that the British had their eyes on

1:39.6

Charleston South Carolina. They had already attempted a half-hearted attack on the city that almost succeeded in taking it.

1:48.0

A big part of Lincoln's time was spent building and reinforcing the defenses in and around Charleston,

1:54.7

which was seen as the key to holding the state of South Carolina. Lincoln never wanted the

2:00.4

Southern command and had already tried to resign several times.

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