New York Nov[embe]r 19th [1779]
My Dear Lord,
My last told you that Destaign
with 22 sail of the line & 4 frigates &c., &c.,
and 6 or 8000 men was on the coast of Georgia
& had probably landed. I have now the
pleasure to inform you that an express
is this moment arrived from thence with
an account of Destaign's and Lincoln's having
made a general assault upon Savannah
on the 9th of October, were repulsed with great
loss since which the Rebels retired into Carolina