There seems to have been but one opinion among the Americans as to the mistake of D'Estaign, in granting the required indulgence.

Weems, speaking for General Horry, says, "I never beheld Marion in so great a passion.

I was actually afraid he would have broken out on General Lincoln.

'My God!' he exclaimed, 'who ever heard of anything like this before?
First allow an enemy to entrench, and then fight him! See the destruction brought upon the British at Bunker's Hill--yet our troops there were only militia; raw, half-armed clodhoppers, and not a mortar, or carronade, not even a swivel--only their ducking-guns! What, then, are we to expect from regulars, completely armed, with a choice train of artillery, and covered by a breastwork.'" * Major-General T.Pinckney's account of the siege of Savannah, quoted by Garden .-- The anticipations of Marion were fully realized.

When the junction of the French and American armies was effected, it was determined to reduce the place by siege.