In the spring of 1780, Clinton, with a large army, landed on the coast between Savannah and Charleston.

He marched overland to Charleston and besieged it from the land side.

The Americans held out for a long time.

But they were finally forced to surrender.
Clinton then sailed back to New York, and left to Lord Cornwallis the further conquest of the Carolinas.
[Sidenote: Battle of Camden, 1780.] 158.

Gates's Defeat at Camden, 1780 .-- Cornwallis had little trouble in occupying the greater part of South Carolina.