THE FAIR COURIER.

A STORY OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION.

‘poet MOTTE, Fort Granby, Fort Wat-

son, the fort at Orangeburg, and every
other post in South Carolina, except Charles-
ton and Ninety-Six, had yielded succes-
sively to the American arms, under the
command of Greene, Sumter, Marion, and
Lee; and now General Greene turned all
his energies to the reduction of Ninety-Six,
giving orders at the same time, for General
Sumter to remain in the country south and
west of the Congaree, so as to cut off
all communication between Lord Rawdon,
who was at Charleston awaiting reinforce-
ments from England, and Colonel Cruger,

who was in command at Ninety-Six.
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