SC, USA
British Evacuation of Charleston
December 14, 1782
DateDecember 14, 1782
Precisionday
The British evacuation of Charleston on December 14, 1782, was the final consequence of the Eutaw Springs campaign and the broader Greene strategy. The fourteen months between Eutaw Springs and the evacuation represented the long denouement of a campaign that had been decided, in military terms, by September 1781. Greene led the Continental Army into the city as the British fleet departed.
People Involved
Major General Nathanael Greene(Continental Army General)
Rhode Island Quaker who became Washington's most capable general. Commanded the Southern Department from December 1780, rebuilding the shattered army and fighting a campaign of strategic attrition that expelled British forces without winning a single tactical victory.