Kammala wannan jumla: Bayan da aka yi ƙoƙarin yin nasara ba tare da nasara ba
kama Savannah, Georgia, a karkashin umurnin Janar Benjamin Lincoln, Ma'aikatar Kudancin Sojojin Nahiyar ta koma Charleston, South Carolina. Janar Sir Henry Clinton ya tura sojojinsa, suka kewaye garin inda sojojin Lincoln suka nemi mafaka kuma suka yanke duk wata dama ta samun taimako ga Sojojin Nahiyar. Kafin mika wuya, Lincoln ya sami damar samun sakonni ga Janar Washington da kuma Majalisar Tarayyar Turai da ke neman taimako. A ƙarshen Afrilu 1780, Washington ta aika da Janar deKalb tare da sojojin 1,400 na Maryland da Delaware. Layin Maryland ya zama babban ɓangare na wannan ƙarfin.