Storm over Savannah by Alexander Lawrence

Storm over Savannah by Alexander Lawrence

Storm Over Savannah: The Story of Count d’Estaing and the Siege of the Town in 1779 tells the story of France’s attempt to take down Savannah, the center for Britain’s military power in the colonies in 1779. This mission, led by Charles-Henri, Comte d’Estaing, was taken on by four thousand troops of King Louis XVI, in cooperation with Americans. This account of the little-known Siege of Savannah reveals a dramatic story worth telling.

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ALEXANDER A. LAWRENCE (1906–79) was a district judge for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia and a historian of Georgia Civil War history.

JIM PIECUCH is an associate professor of history at Kennesaw State University. He is author of several books, including Three Peoples, One King: Loyalists, Indians, and Salves in the Revolutionary South, 1775–1782 and General Nathanael Greene and the American Revolution in the South.