Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Bayan da rashin cin nasara ƙoƙari na kama
Savannah, Georgia, a karkashin jagorancin Janar Benjamin Lincoln, Ma'aikatar Kudancin Sojojin Kasashen Turai ta koma Charleston, South Carolina. Janar Sir Henry Clinton ya motsa sojojinsa, ya kewaye birnin inda sojojin Lincoln suke kuma ya yanke duk wata dama ta taimako ga Sojojin Nahiyar. Kafin mika wuya, Lincoln ya sami damar samun sakonni ga Janar Washington da Majalisa suna neman taimako. A ƙarshen Afrilu 1780, Washington ta aika da Janar Johann de Kalb tare da sojojin 1,400 na Maryland da Delaware. Layin Maryland ya zama babban ɓangare na wannan ƙarfin, tare da Williams yana aiki a matsayin Babban Janar zuwa Janar De Kalb.