Battle of Beaufort
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The <entity_1>, also known as the Battle of <entity_2>, was fought on <entity_3>, near Beaufort, <entity_4>, during the <entity_0>. Brigadier General Augustine Prevost sent 200 British regulars to seize <entity_2> at the mouth of the Broad River in <entity_4> in late January 1779. Prevost decided thereafter to send a force to occupy <entity_2> just up the coast in <entity_4>, where he had been led to believe that Loyalist sentiment was strong. When General Lincoln learned that communications with <entity_2> had been cut off by the British advance, he sent <entity_4> Brigadier General William Moultrie, who had distinguished himself in the 1776 Battle of Sullivan's Island, and 300 men to counter the move.
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