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Events on Wednesday 29 March 1780 1
1780Siege of CharlestonBritish capture the principal Southern American portBritish forces under Sir Henry Clinton besieged Charleston, South Carolina, from late March. General Benjamin Lincoln surrendered the city and roughly 5,000 Continental troops on 12 May. It was the greatest American defeat of the Revolutionary War.