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Day after day the siege of Ninety-Six
went on, the Americans slowly approach-
ing the fort by a series of works con-
structed under the superintendence of Kos-
ciusko, and Cruger still holding out in ex-
pectations of reinforcements from Charles-
ton, although not a single word of intelli-
gence from Lord Rawdon had reached him
since the investment of the post which he
held with so much bravery and perse-
verance.

On the 3d of June, the long-expected
reinforcement from England reached Lord
Rawdon, and on the 7th he started for the
relief of Colonel Cruger with a portion of
three Irish regiments, and was joined soon
after by the South Carolina royalists, swell-
ing his force to two thousand men. But
all his efforts to transmit intelligence of his
approach t@ the beleaguered garrison at
Ninety-Six proved unavailing. His mes-
sengers were intercepted by Sumter and
Marion, who held possession of the interme-

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