The two sides resume firing at each…
November 1775 CE
The Loyalists attempt to set fires, creating a smokescreen they can use to approach the stockade.
This attempt is frustrated by the wet ground.
The Loyalists next construct a large wooden shield behind which they seek to bring incendiaries closer to the fort, but they only succeed in "[setting] Fire to their own Engine themselves", according to one account, and it is not proof against the Patriot's guns.
On the afternoon of November 21 the Patriots hold a war council, in which they decide to sortie that night.
They are preparing for this action at sunset when a Loyalist approaches with a parley flag.
Nothing is decided in the discussion beyond an agreement to meet the next morning.
People
Groups
Germans
View →
Scottish people
View →
English people
View →
Cherokee, or Tsalagi (Amerind tribe)
View →
Thirteen Colonies, The
View →
British people
View →
Britain, Kingdom of Great
View →
South Carolina, Province of (British Colony)
View →
Patriots (American Revolution)
View →
Loyalists (American Revolution)
View →