With losses of some nine hundred killed and wounded in the bitter fighting the assailants drew off and soon raised the siege.
The British losses were only fifty-four.

In the previous year French and Americans fighting together had utterly failed.

Now they had failed again and there was bitter recrimination between the defeated allies.
D'Estaing sailed away and soon lost some of his ships in a violent storm.

Ill-fortune pursued him to the end.

He served no more in the war and in the Reign of Terror in Paris, in 1794, he perished on the scaffold.
At Charleston the American General Lincoln was in command with about six thousand men.