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General Pulaski and his cavalry joined the French and Patriot infantry as they tried to storm the Spring Hill redoubt. A blast of British grapeshot mortally wounded the Polish officer, who urged his cavalry onward even as he lay near death on the muddy battlefield. His cavalry and the American infantry got only as far as the outer ditch before mounting losses forced them to withdraw. Soldiers carried Pulaski back to friendly lines, where he lingered for two days before dying.
"Count Pulaski, who, with the Cavalry, preceded the right Column of the Americans, proceeded gallantly until stopped by the Abbatis, and before he could force through it, received his mortal Wound. In the mean Time, Colonel Laurens at the Head of the Light Infantry, followed by the 2d South Carolina Regiment, and 1st Battalion Charleston Militia, attacked the Spring Hill Redoubt, got into the Ditch and planted the Colours of the 2d Regiment on the Berm, but the Parapet was too high for them to scale it under so heavy a Fire, and after much Slaughter they were driven out of the Ditch. When General Pulaski was about to be removed from the Field, Colonel D. Horry, to whom the Command of the Cavalry devolved, asked what were his Directions. He answered, 'follow my Lancers to whom I have given my order of Attack’."
Maj. Thomas PickneyHough, F. B. 1822-1885. (1866). “The siege of Savannah: by the combined American and French Forces, under the command of Gen. Lincoln, and the Count d’Estaing, in the autumn of 1779.” Albany: J. Munsell, 1866, pp. 166-167.