She had afterwards emigrated to America.

The rising, however, had been put down, and Clinton had not thought it expedient to try a serious invasion, in face of the large force assembled to resist him.

Upon Parker's coming, it was decided to make an attempt upon Charleston, South Carolina.

The fleet therefore sailed from Cape Fear on the 1st of June, and on the 4th anchored off Charleston Bar.
Charleston Harbour opens between two of the sea-islands which fringe the coasts of South Carolina and Georgia.

On the north is Sullivan's Island, on the south James Island.