While Richardson gathered his forces, Major Andrew…
November 1775 CE
He arrives at Ninety Six early on November 19 with five hundred and sixty men.
Finding the small town to be not very defensible, he establishes a camp on John Savage's plantation, provided a field of fire for the force's three swivel guns.
He begins fortifying the camp, ordering the construction of an improvised stockade.
Loyalist recruiting has been more successful: Williamson has learned that Captain Patrick Cuningham and Major Joseph Robinson ware leading a large Loyalist force (estimated to number about nineteen hundred) marching out to face the Loyalists.
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