The
Siege of Savannah or the
Second Battle of Savannah was an encounter of the
American Revolutionary War in 1779. The year before, the city of
Savannah, Georgia, had been
captured by a
British expeditionary corps under
Lieutenant-Colonel Archibald Campbell. The siege itself consisted of a joint
Franco-American attempt to retake Savannah, from September 16 to October 18, 1779. On October 9 a major assault against the British siege works failed. During the attack, Polish nobleman Count
Casimir Pulaski, leading the combined
cavalry forces on the American side, was mortally wounded. With the failure of the joint American-French attack, the
siege failed, and the British remained in control of Savannah until July 1782, near the end of the war.