Excerpt from History of the American Revolution, Vol. 2 of 2: Comprehending All the Principal Events Both in the Field and in the Cabinet General Provost almost immediately determined to take advantage of this movement of Lincoln, and penetrate into South Carolina. With this view, hav ing collected a force of more than 3000 men, he cross ed the river in several places, and moved towards the posts occupied by Moultrie. They traversed swamps that had been deemed by the Americans impassable, and appeared so unexpectedly, that Moultrie's mili tia made but a feeble resistance and retreated towards Charleston. Emboldened by this success, the Bri tish General, with the advice and concurrence of his omcers, determined to push his advantages as far as the capital of South Carolina. He moved on, there fore, in pursuit of Moultrie's militia, a part of which had beenleftnnder Colonel Laurens at Coosawhatchie bridge, while Moultrie himself took post at Tullifin uy bridge. Laurens defended the pass with great spirit for some time, but being himself wounded, and his troops havingsufl'ered considerably, he was at length obliged to join General Moultrie. Captain Shubrick, his second in command, conducted the re treat ot' Laurene's corps with greatorderand caution. 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.