An illustrated history of the New world : containing a general history of all the various nations, states, and republics of the western continent ..and a complete history of the United States to the present time .. . y, to surrender; but on receivinghis answer to cnme and take him, they hastily retired. Anotherparty from the same place, after laying waste a large tracuf country,and carrying ofT all the negroes, horses, cattle and plate, belongino^to the planters, and burning the town of Midway, retired into Florida,General Robert Howe determined to retaliate these attacks, andmarched against S
An illustrated history of the New world : containing a general history of all the various nations, states, and republics of the western continent ..and a complete history of the United States to the present time .. . y, to surrender; but on receivinghis answer to cnme and take him, they hastily retired. Anotherparty from the same place, after laying waste a large tracuf country,and carrying ofT all the negroes, horses, cattle and plate, belongino^to the planters, and burning the town of Midway, retired into Florida,General Robert Howe determined to retaliate these attacks, andmarched against St. Augustine with two thousand troops, but sickness obliged him to retreat. The British commander-in-chief now concerted a plan for obtainingpossession of Georgia, by invading it with two separate bodies oftroops. Fur this purpose, Major-general Prevost was to march fromSt. Augustine, with his whole force, and invade the south, whilstLieutenant-colonel Campbell, with two thousand five hundred menfrom New York, mvested Savannah. On the 23d of December, thelatter appeared in the river, and effected a landing, without muchopposition. To defend the state. General Robert Howe had about 49 2 K 386 CAMPAIGN OF 177^.. CAPTAIN BIDDLB SIX hundred continental soldiers, and two hundred and fifty militia,and with this force he had taken a very advantageous position, sur-rounded, except in front, by a swamp, river, and morass ; and thenature of the place was such, that had he been attacked in front, hecould have easily defended himself. A negro, however, being awareof a small private path, through the morass, which led to the rearotthe American army, conducted a detachment of light-infantry, underSir James Baird, upon the rear, while an attack was made in the Americans were* completely entrapped. Although theyfought desperately, upwards of one hundred were killed, and fourhundred and fifty-three prisoners, forty-eight pieces of cannon,twenty-three mortars, the fort, the shipping i
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