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177916 September – 18 October 1779 · Savannah, Georgia

Siege of Savannah

A. I. Keller's drawing of French and American troops storming the British lines at Savannah in 1779
Archival image: Arthur Ignatius Keller. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

French and American forces under the Comte d'Estaing and Benjamin Lincoln besieged British-held Savannah and on 9 October 1779 stormed the Spring Hill redoubt. The assault failed with heavy losses, and the Polish cavalry commander Casimir Pulaski was mortally wounded. Among the French troops were about 545 free men of colour from Saint-Domingue, today's Haiti, whose part is now marked in Franklin Square.

Sites

  1. Site 1: Battlefield Memorial Park and Spring Hill redoubtReconstructed redoubt and memorial park on the line of the 9 October assault.Map ↗
  2. Site 2: Chasseurs-Volontaires monument, Franklin SquareBronze group honouring the Saint-Domingue volunteers who fought in the siege.Map ↗
  3. Site 3: Pulaski Monument, Monterey SquareMarble column of the 1850s honouring Casimir Pulaski.Map ↗

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