"capture" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- During 1776, forces under his command repulsed a British attempt to capture Charleston, which boosted his standing with the army and Congress.
- It was forced to surrender in 1780 when the British captured Charleston.
- Despite his lack of faith in the monitors, Du Pont did not propose any alternative plans to capture Charleston.
- This was part of the second Union attempt to capture Charleston.
- After the British captured Charleston in 1780, he was held as a prisoner at St. Augustine, Florida for a time.
- There he practiced medicine until, in 1780, the British also captured Charleston.
- In 1780 the British captured Charleston, South Carolina, and with it most of the colony's civil government and military forces.
- The Legion as a whole was part of the British force that besieged and captured Charleston in 1780.
- When British troops captured Charleston in 1779, the state legislature elected Rutledge governor and handed him virtually absolute power.
- In April, he participated in an unsuccessful expedition to capture Charleston, South Carolina.
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