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 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.