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Excerpt from How the Black St. Domingo Legion Saved the Patriot Army in the Siege of Savannah, 1779 Take thy banner may it wave Proudly o'er the good and brave; Take thy banner and if e'er Thou shoulds't press the soldier's bier And the muflled drum shall beat To the tread of mournful feet, Then the crimson flag shall be Martial cloak and shroud for thee. The warrior took that banner proud. And it was his martial cloak and shroud rect impressions. The attack upon Savannah was well-planned and thoroughly well considered; and it failed only because the works were so ably defended, chiefly by British regulars, under brave and skillful officers. In a remote way, which it is the purpose of this pa per to trace, that sanguinary struggle haa a wider bearing upon the progress of liberty in the Western World than any other one battle fought during the Revolution. But first let us listen to the story of the battle itself. Colonel Campbell with a force of three thousand men, captured Savannah in December 1778; and in the January followmg, General Prevost ar rived, and by March had established a sort of civil government in Georgia, Savannah being the capital. In April, the American gen eral, Lincoln, feeble 111 more senses than one, perhaps, began a move' ment against Savannah by way of Augusta; but Prevost, aware of his purpose, crossed into South Carolina and attempted an attack up on Charleston. Finding the city too well defended, he contented. Himself with ravaging the plantations over a wide extent of adjacent country, and returned to Savannah laden with rich spoils, among which were included three thousand slaves, of whose labor he made good use later. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.