<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War" id="mwbw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="American Revolutionary War">American Revolutionary War</a>: In the largest defeat of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_Army" id="mwcA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Continental Army">Continental Army</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charleston,_South_Carolina" id="mwcQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Charleston, South Carolina">Charleston, South Carolina</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Charleston" id="mwcg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Siege of Charleston">is taken</a> by British forces.