Citation - Royal American Gazette: 1780.06.13

RAG.780.123
13 Jun 1780:21 (286)
A Journal of the Operations before Charles-Town, to the day
of its surrender to the British forces.
. . . [Preparations for battle]
The first of April we broke ground, and the work went on
with very little interruption.  On the 7th, the rebels got a
reinforcement, said to be 700 men from Washington, who had
been six months on their march: a feu de joy was fired, and
they rang the bells all night. . .