Siege of Fort Logan in 1777, [493.]
Siege of Fort Henry, Wheeling Creek, in 1777--Approach of Girty and Indians, [497;] Inhabitants of Wheeling take Refuge in Fort--Girty demands Surrender of Fort--Refused--Battle ensues, [498;] Arrival of Swearingen and M'Culloch with fifty-four Men--Girty sets Fire to Houses, kills Cattle, and departs--Loss, [499.]
Siege of Yorktown in 1781--Arrival of Washington and French Officers at Williamsburg, [a]513;] Prepares for Attack upon Cornwallis--Arrival of allied Troops--De Choisé sent to invest Gloucester--Allied Armies march toward Yorktown--British withdraw toward Town on Approach of Americans, [514;] French Troops ordered to take Possession of abandoned Works--Cannonade from the Town--Colonel Srammell shot by Hessians--Allied Forces invest the Town, [515;] Position of the American Corps--Bombardment of the Town--Burning of British Ships, [517;] Continued Approaches toward British Works, [518;] Successful Assault upon Redoubts--Bravery of Freneh Grenadiers--Loss of Americans, [519;] Attempt of Cornwallis to escape--Furious Storm of Wind and Rain--Re-bombardment of the Town, [520;] Surrender proposed--Synopsis of Articles of Capitulation, [522;] Ceremonies of Surrender of the British--Delivery of the Colors, [524;] Laying down of Arms--Loss of both Armies, [526.]
Siege of Fort Motte in 1781--Rawdon approaches Nelson's Ferry--Lee's Expedient, [686;] Rawdon's Retreat, [687.]
Siege of Fort Ninety-six in 1781--Commenced by Kosciuszko, [691;] Approach of Rawdon--Attempt to destroy Stockade-Activity of the Bloody Scout, [692;] Assault on Star Redoubt--Capture of Stockade, [693;] Loss and wounded--Raising of the Siege--Arrival of Rawdon--His Pursuit of Greene--Movement of the two Armies, [694;] Courage and Arrest of Emily Geiger--Rawdon foiled, [695.]
Siege of Fort Watson in 1780--Marion demands of M'Kay unconditional Surrender of the Fort--Expedient of Colonel Maham--Surrender of the British, [707;] Killed and wounded, [708.]
Siege of Augusta in 1780--Approach of Clark and M'Call--Skirmish with Indian Camp, [715;] Skirmish at White House--Colonel Brown wounded--Capture and Defeat of Americans--Fate of the Prisoners, [716;] Reassembling of Patriots near Augusta, [717;] Plan of Attack--Erection of Mayham Tower--Skirmish--Garrison subdued, [718;] Surrender of the Forts to Americans--British Prisoners paroled to Savannah--Loss and wounded, [719.]
Siege of Savannah in 1779--Concentration of American Troops--D'Estaing's Summons to surrender refused--His Error, [735;] Arrival of Maitland--Victory lost by Delay--Plan of the Siege, [736;] Its Operations--D'Estaing proposes to storm the Works--Bombardment opened upon British--Terror reigns supreme, [737;] Storming of Spring Hill Redoubt--D'Estaing wounded--Death of Pulaski and Jasper, [738;] Siege raised--Loss--Withdrawal of combined Armies--Effect of the Movement, [739.]
Siege of Fort Sullivan in 1776--Attaek of British Fleet--Returned by Americans--Clinton repulsed--Cannonade of the Fort--Fate of British Fleet, [755;] Burning of the Actæon--Effect of the Battle--Loss--Bravery of Sergeant Jasper, [756.]
Siege of Charleston in 1780--Arrival of British Fleet--Advance of Clinton, [764;] Attaek upon the Town--Surprise of Huger--Proposed Surrender rejected--Plan of Battle-ground, [765;] Continuance of the Siege--Perils of the City--Killed and wounded, [766;] Cessation of Hostilities--Capitulation and Surrender, [767.]