CHAPTER 16.
INDEPENDENCE [Sidenote: Invasion of the South.] [Sidenote: Capture of Charleston, 1780.] 157.

Fall of Charleston, 1780 .-- It seemed quite certain that Clinton could not conquer the Northern states with the forces given him.
In the South there were many loyalists.

Resistance might not be so stiff there.

At all events Clinton decided to attempt the conquest of the South.

Savannah was easily seized (1778), and the French and Americans could not retake it (1779).