After the British fleet took up its position, it first launched an attack on the American batteries near Savannah.

The Americans built a battery near Savannah, but it was quite old, and the artillery on it was somewhat out of date - it was still using 76mm front-loading rifled guns. Of course, this is not mainly due to the fact that the pace of development of artillery has been too fast in recent years. You know, just a few years ago, these guns were already very advanced weapons.

The soldiers of the British Army, on a beach near the battery, went ashore and began to attack the battery. At the same time, the warships of the Navy began to shell the batteries to cover the offensive actions of the army.

Most of Georgia's state soldiers had been moved north to fight the Canadians, and the troops on the batteries were severely undernumbered. In fact, not only was there not enough people, but even the number of guns was not enough - when the Georgia state soldiers went north, they dragged some of the smaller guns from the batteries away.

In addition, today was supposed to be the weekend, and many soldiers and officers were not on the battery in the first place. So the British seized the battery with almost no effort. Then the British warships sailed down the channel and directly into the harbor.

The British transport ship docked directly at the port dock, and then the British Army soldiers with bayonets in hand boarded the dock.

Among them, a few Georgian soldiers tried to resist, but the British warships immediately fired at the ship's guns at close range, which really crushed their resistance.

The British troops in the brigade went ashore and quickly made a surprise advance along the streets into the city. There were some gunshots in the city from time to time, which quickly subsided. By about three o'clock in the afternoon, the British had taken control of the entire city, taking advantage of the successful raid.

The British then naturally adopted a "light-grabbing policy". The British seized all the warehouses in the city and searched for all kinds of items in them. Everything that could be used was loaded onto the ship. As for those merchant ships in the port, as long as they see that they are in good condition, they will be directly "requisitioned". As for what you don't like, you won't waste it. The British used their temporary conscription of American laborers to demolish many of the buildings in the city. And then the dismantled bricks and all that stuff were loaded onto the ships.

The British spent three days in Savannah, and they had almost everything they could grab. At this time, more than 10,000 state soldiers improvised by Georgia began to gradually approach Savannah.

General Arthur Wellesley also used these few days to prepare an improvised version of Joseph's defense outside the city. Then the American hit his head and broke his head.

So Georgia issued a general mobilization order, ordering all men over the age of fifteen and under sixty in the state to bring their own weapons and report to prepare to resist the British invasion.

Neither General Nelson nor General Arthur Wellesley actually went hundreds of kilometers inland to set fire to Atlanta. The city, if possible, would be better left to the Americans to burn on their own. However, considering that the direction of the development of the United States in this world line is completely different from the original history, it is estimated that Atlanta has mostly escaped the devastating fire.

Four days later, the British had essentially finished plundering Savannah. So they drove all the Americans out of the city and began the second step of the plan, "burn it down." After driving out all the inhabitants of the city, the British lit dozens of fires in the city in one go, and the whole city soon burst into flames.

At this time, most of the British ships, including the ships they had requisitioned, were out of port, and the cavalry who lit the fire got on the last few transports, and then the transports left the port, and when the last transports were out of the port, the British drove the bricks and stones that were not in good condition to some important places in the harbor, and then anchored and fixed them, and then blew through the bottom of the ship with a small time bomb, and let the ships sink in the most critical positions in the fairway, becoming an artificial reef.

After the ships sank, the British sent small boats, dropped some mines in the harbor and in the fairway, and then left Savannah with satisfaction.

No, the British were not completely satisfied. Because the French were always watching from the neighborhood, they had to be a little more disciplined in their actions, for example, they expelled the citizens from the city before setting fire to it. And according to the original plan, in short, the "three-light policy" has become the "two-light policy", which is a full third, which is really uncomfortable.

News of the capture of Savannah by the British soon spread throughout the United States through the cable telegraph system. The news, of course, reached the front lines in Cleveland. As a result, the U.S. troops surrounding Cleveland immediately panicked.

The legions from Georgia strongly demanded that either they should launch a general attack on Cleveland at once, retake Cleveland quickly, and then return to defend their homeland immediately; Or simply stop the siege of Cleveland and let them rush back to defend Georgia immediately. Cleveland was occupied by the Canadians, which is certainly infuriating, but for the people of the Georgia Legion, Savannah is a hundred times more important than Cleveland, just as Georgia is a hundred times more important than Ohio.

Not only Georgia, but all the state soldiers in the coastal states were terrified - if the British fleet could attack Georgia, they could also attack South Carolina, then North Carolina, then Virginia, then Maryland and Delaware, then ...... All the way up to Massachusetts, everyone can be attacked.

A few days later, when the news came that the British had burned Savannah and continued north, the American forces besieging Cleveland became more and more panicked. Legend has it that the British went on a killing spree in Savannah, and they slaughtered all the people in the city, just like Genghis Khan. Then he set fire to the entire city, and it is said that the fire did not go out for days, and there was not a single house left in Savannah that could still stand.

The news not only caused an uproar among the Georgia soldiers, but also panicked the soldiers in South Carolina and North Carolina because they were just north of Georgia. And now that the British fleet has begun to move north, their cities are the next target of the British.

So, the requirements of the Georgia Corps are the requirements of all state soldiers. And such a demand, even President Jefferson could not ignore it. To be honest, the political status of the American president in this era in the country is much lower than that of later generations. In the later generations, even if you understand the king, you can have a thousand ways to get those governors to obediently send money to his son-in-law. But in this era, he has no way to deal with those state soldiers and the governors of the states. If the Georgians shouted "Georgia first" and then left with the army, he would have no choice at all.

President Jefferson personally rushed to the front line in Cleveland to speak with General Andrew Jackson, the commander of the U.S. forces outside Cleveland and commander of the Tennessee Corps, and Colonel Severge, the general adviser of the French advisory group, to listen to their opinions.

"In today's situation, having lost the right to control the sea along the coast, we can only turn to all-out defense." "It is a pity that the United States has not been able to build a railroad along the coast, and if there was such a railway, our defense of the sea would have been much easier," said Colonel Severge.

As for the president, you asked me if I could take back Cleveland with a general offensive. Mr. President, I have to say, this is impossible, it is beyond the capabilities of our army. Mr. President, the British defense in Cleveland is a typical 'Josephian defense'. To break through such a defense quickly, even the French army had to pay a surprisingly high price. I don't mean to look down on the U.S. Army here, but the level of training and equipment of the French Army is superior to that of the U.S. Army. If Mr. President is going to solve the Cleveland problem quickly, then once that is done, you will never have enough troops to strengthen the coastal defenses. ”

"And General Jackson, what do you think about this?" President Jefferson asked again.

"A direct attack is impossible." General Andrew Jackson replied. Although he has a brave personality, after these days of fighting, he also understands that rushing to the "Joseph Defense" is simply looking for death.

"But Mr. President, it will be dangerous for us to retreat. If the enemy takes advantage of the situation to counterattack, the retreat of our army will also be troublesome. But this is also an opportunity, in fact, we can take advantage of this opportunity, we make a retreat, and then set a trap, and then the British who come out to pursue will suffer. Then we can safely retreat. General Andrew Jackson added.

"But it will take time, too. In fact, getting the soldiers back takes time in itself. Damage to our coastal cities is inevitable. In addition, Your Excellency the President, I suggest that you should order some mines for the defense of the port as quickly as possible. Maybe the cities in the South will be too late, but some of the ports in the North, especially those inside the Chesapeake Bay, we can protect them if we move fast enough and rely on mines. Colonel Severge also advised.

The Chesapeake Bay is a bay that juts into the Atlantic Ocean and into the American continent from south to north. The bay is 311 kilometers (193 miles) long and 5?? 40 km (3??) 25 miles), is the largest bay in the United States. Many important cities in the United States, such as the capital Washington, D.C., and Baltimore, an important port, are located here. The entrance to the bay is less than 20 kilometers wide, while the narrowest section in the middle is only about six kilometers. Among them, the shipping lanes that can be used for shipping are even narrower. As long as there were enough mines, it was entirely possible to hold off the British fleet and keep them from sailing into the Chesapeake Bay.