Siege of Savannah
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The
Siege of Savannah was a battle of the
American Revolutionary War in
1779. The year before,
Savannah, Georgia had been captured by a
British expeditionary corps under
Henry Clinton. The siege itself consisted of a joint
Franco-
American attempt to retake Savannah on
October 9,
1779. In this assault Count
Kazimierz Pułaski;, fighting on the US side, was mortally wounded. The attack failed, and the British would remain in control of
Georgia until close to the end of the war.
The battle is much remembered in Haitian history, for it was here that a legion of several hundred free blacks from colonial Haiti fought on the French side. Henri Christophe, who later became king of independent Haiti, is thought to have been among these troops.