The Monthly military repository . rrender of the town at the ex-piration of the time fixed for an anfwer : But Gen. Prevolthoped that the troops who had been ftationed at Beaufort,under Col. Maitland, might arrive during the interval; andin this hope he was not difappointed. That officer arrived atSavannah before the expiration of the truce, with the bcft:part of his detachment, amounting to about eight hundredmen. The arrival of fo confiderable a reinforcement infpir-ed the garrifon of Savannah with new animation. An an-fwer was returned to the French commander that the townwould be defended
The Monthly military repository . rrender of the town at the ex-piration of the time fixed for an anfwer : But Gen. Prevolthoped that the troops who had been ftationed at Beaufort,under Col. Maitland, might arrive during the interval; andin this hope he was not difappointed. That officer arrived atSavannah before the expiration of the truce, with the bcft:part of his detachment, amounting to about eight hundredmen. The arrival of fo confiderable a reinforcement infpir-ed the garrifon of Savannah with new animation. An an-fwer was returned to the French commander that the townwould be defended to the laft extremity. The French and Americans formed a junftion on the fol-lowing day, but fome time being required for landing andbringing up the heavy artillery from the ftiips, the combinedarmies did not begin to break ground for the purpofe of car-rying on their approaches until the twenty-third of Septem-ber, nor were their batteries ready to open until the fourth©ifOaoberV The battcries of the beftegers having on that Go. PublUhcJ hv A>«/ Yn,-k MILITARY REPOSITORY. 285 Sound, an inlet of the fea fome miles fouth of themouth of the river Savannah. On the following day fourFrench frigates entered the anchorage ground at Tybee, andthe Britilh naval force moved up the river to Savannah. Theguns were landed from the Britifh {hips, and mounted on thebatteries. They incorporated the marines with the grena-diers of the 60th regiment, and put the feamen on fhore toaffifl in working the artillery. They funk the Rofe, and Sa-vannah armed fliip, with four tranfports, acrofs the channelbelow the town, to prevent the French frigates from com-ing higher ; and above it they laid a boom acrofs to preventfire rafts from being fent down. The Germaine armed brigalone retained her guns ; and fhe was ftationed off Yamiraw,above the town, to flank the right of the Britifh lines. Thefadifpofuions the Britifli made on the river, whilft on fhore,affifled by fome hundreds of
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