. Battles of the United States, by sea and land : embracing those of the revolutionary and Indian wars, the war of 1812, and the Mexican war : with important official documents. Moultrie ;* andthat, having already secured the banksof the Ashley River, which flows onthe west and south of the town, hewould employ his fleet to occupy theCooper River, which flows on the eastside, and thus be enabled to enfiladethe batteries, and entirely cut off thecommunication Itetweeu the town andthe surrounding country.^ To pi-eventthis the American fleet was removed Adml. Arbuthnots dispatch. May 14 ; Gen. Mo
. Battles of the United States, by sea and land : embracing those of the revolutionary and Indian wars, the war of 1812, and the Mexican war : with important official documents. Moultrie ;* andthat, having already secured the banksof the Ashley River, which flows onthe west and south of the town, hewould employ his fleet to occupy theCooper River, which flows on the eastside, and thus be enabled to enfiladethe batteries, and entirely cut off thecommunication Itetweeu the town andthe surrounding country.^ To pi-eventthis the American fleet was removed Adml. Arbuthnots dispatch. May 14 ; Gen. Moultrieto his friend, March 22 ; Gen. Lincoln to Gen. Washing-ton, March 24.—» Marshall, iv. p. 188. Adml. Arlnithnots dispatch. May 14 ; Gen. Moultriesletter to a friend, March 20 ; Saml. Baldwins Diary,March 20 ; Tarleton, p. 10 ; Lees Mem., p. 65. * Gen. Moultrie to bis friend, March 20 ; RamsaysRev. in S. C, ii. p. 50 ; Tarleton, p. 10. Col. Tarleton(p. 10) says the frigates also entered, which is, doubtless,tnic, although not mentioned elsewhere. • RimisaysRev. in S. C, ii. p. 50.— Marshall, iv. p. 188 Riuusays Eev. in S. C, ii. p. 61 ; Lees Mem., p. 66 1 f 5. Chap. LIX.] THE SIEGE OF CHARLESTON. 573 from the channel near Fort Moultrie,and, on the twenty-first of March, itentered the Cooper River, when theguns, stores, and men from all, exceptthe Ranger, were taken on shore andemployed on the land batteries.^ Soonafterwards eleven vessels were sunkacross the channel of the Cooper Riv-er, in a line extending from the Ex-change Battery, nearly northeastward,to Shutes Folly.^ Cables, extendingfrom mast to mast of the sunken vessels,and a boom, rendered the passage im-practicable ;* while the Ranger and twogalleys prevented the passage thi-oughHog Island Channel equally dangerous,and, for some time longer, preservedthe communication.* Relying upon the promises of sup-port to the number of ten thousandmen, one half of whom were to be reg-ulars, General Lincoln resolutely
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