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The New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser
Portsmouth, Exeter, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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Extract from a September 2 letter at General Greene's camp reports British plans to evacuate Charleston soon due to insufficient transports for stores and refugees to East Florida. Refugees to be left at fortified Beaufort on Port Royal Island until transports return from New York, while collecting corn. Americans expect to enter the town in about 10 days.
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Extract of a letter from a gentleman at General Greene's camp, dated Sept. 2.
Orders have been repeated for the evacuation of Charleston; they have not transports enough to convey their stores, and provide for the refugees who are to go to East Florida. We have good information they have fallen upon this method:--they will evacuate Charleston in a few days, and leave the refugees at Beaufort on Port Royal Island, a little to the southward, well fortified. Here they are to remain till the transports can return from New York, and in the mean time collect corn, which is much wanted from the Islands in the vicinity. Probably we shall be in town about 10 days hence.
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Charleston
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Dated Sept. 2; Evacuate In A Few Days
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british to evacuate charleston; refugees left at beaufort; americans to enter town in about 10 days
Event Details
Orders repeated for evacuation of Charleston due to insufficient transports for stores and refugees to East Florida. Plan: evacuate in a few days, leave refugees at fortified Beaufort on Port Royal Island until transports return from New York, collect corn from nearby islands in meantime.