still substantial risk of seasonal hurricanes—a few French ships arrived at Charleston with news that d'Estaing was sailing for Georgia with twenty-five ships of the line and 4,000 French troops. Lincoln and the French emissaries agreed on a plan of attack on Savannah, and Lincoln left Charleston with over 2,000 men on September 11. Order of Battle Allies Commanding General of Allied Forces, Major General Benjamin Lincoln Continentals Artillery & Engineers, commanded by Colonel B. Beckman 4th South Carolina Regiment of Continental Artillery (1 coy) 1st Brigade, commanded by Brigadier General Lachlan McIntosh 3rd South Carolina Regiment (Rangers) – Cavalry (2 sqns) 1st South Carolina Regiment – Infantry (1 small company) 6th South Carolina Regiment (Rifles) – Riflemen (roughly one small coy) 2nd Brigade, commanded by Brigadier General Isaac Huger Huger's Continental Regiment (4 coys) Skirving's South Carolina Militia (2 coys) Harden's South Carolina Militia (1 coy) Garden's South Carolina Militia (1 coy) Georgia Militia Brigade, commanded by Brigadier General Lachlan McIntosh Few's Georgia Militia (1 small coy) Dooley's Georgia Militia (1 coy) Twig's Georgia Militia (1 coy) Middleton's Georgia Militia (1 extremely reduced coy) Charleston Militia 2nd Militia Brigade commanded by Colonel M. Simmons (2 coys) Light Troops commanded by Lieutenant colonel J. Laurens (1 strengthened coy) French Commanding Officer, Admiral Charles Henri Hector, Comte d'Estaing The French expedition included detachments or full battalions from: Régiment de Champagne Régiment d'Auxerrois Régiment d'Agénois Régiment de Cambrésis Régiment de Hainaut (German) Régiment de Foix Régiment de Walsh (Irish) Régiment du Cap (colonial, Saint-Domingue) Régiment de La Martinique (colonial, Martinique) Régiment de La Guadeloupe (colonial, Guadeloupe) Régiment du Port–au–Prince (colonial, Saint-Domingue) Régiment de Metz (Artillery) British Commanding Officer, Major General Augustine Prévost 16th Regiment of Foot 71st Regiment of Foot (Fraser's Highlanders) South Carolina Dragoons (Provincial) New York Volunteers North Carolina Royalist Regiment (Provincial) 1 Battalion from De Lancey's Brigade King's Rangers (South Carolinan, Provincial) 2 German Regiments South Carolina Loyalist Militia Georgia Loyalist Militia Detachment of Royal Marines Detachment of Naval gunners serving in the naval battery Artillery 100 guns, howitzers, and mortars part of the Savannah Defences, including a naval battery Defence British defenses British troop strength in the area consisted of about 6,500 regulars at Brunswick, Georgia, another 900 at Beaufort, South Carolina, under Colonel John Maitland, and about 100 Loyalists at Sunbury, Georgia. General Augustine Prevost, in command of these troops from his base at Savannah, was caught