Catherine Greene's Mulberry Grove plantation in this city was where Eli Whitney proposed his design for the cotton gin. Along with the Comte d'Estaing (DAY-stahn), a group of freed Black residents from Saint-Domingue (SAHN duh-MING) helped lead an assault on this city. At a racetrack in this city, a period called "The Weeping Time" involved the largest sale of human lives in U.S. history. During a 1779 siege of this city led by Benjamin Lincoln, Casimir Pulaski was mortally wounded. An 1864 telegraph message noted that a Union general would present this city "as a Christmas gift" to Abraham Lincoln. After landing at Yamacraw Bluff with the help of Mary Musgrove, James Oglethorpe founded this city and arranged it into a network of squares. For 10 points, name this oldest city in Georgia that was the end point of William Sherman's "March to the Sea." ■END■
ANSWER: Savannah
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