Savannah Battlefield Memorial Park recalls the failed Franco-American assault on British-held Savannah on October 9, 1779. British forces had captured the city in December 1778 and strengthened its defenses while an allied force gathered to retake it. French troops under the Comte d'Estaing and American forces under Benjamin Lincoln besieged the city. Their planned attack focused in part on the Spring Hill Redoubt, a defensive work west of the colonial town. The present memorial park occupies an interpreted part of this battlefield, amid streets and institutions that came later.

The assault unfolded in fog and difficult ground. Troops lost direction, met heavy fire, and suffered hundreds of casualties during a short and costly attack. People in the allied force included French soldiers, American regulars and militia, and free men of color from Saint-Domingue; their experiences and subsequent memories are not interchangeable. British defenders included regulars and Loyalists, and the siege affected civilians in Savannah as well as people held in slavery. The attack failed to recapture the city, and the allied armies withdrew. Its losses made the campaign a major episode of the Revolutionary War in the South.

The battlefield was later altered by urban development, railroads, and other uses. Archaeologists working with the Coastal Heritage Society identified evidence associated with the Spring Hill Redoubt in 2005, helping locate the defensive position within the changed landscape. A reconstructed redoubt now marks and interprets the feature; it is not an intact 1779 earthwork. Recovered artifacts are displayed in the nearby Savannah History Museum, where visitors can compare material evidence with maps and written accounts. This relationship between park and museum is more informative than treating a single marker as the whole site.

The memorial also contains hundreds of Georgia granite stones honoring participants and victims from different communities. Their inscriptions reflect a contemporary act of remembrance, and further names and stories have been added over time. The City of Savannah owns the park and Coastal Heritage Society operates it. Conservation involves the reconstructed earthwork, memorial stones, public landscape, archaeological evidence, and the interpretation of an intense battle whose exact historic ground is partly covered by the modern city. The neighboring museum and railroad complex have their own operating rules and admissions.

The park at 655 Louisville Road is open seven days a week from dawn to dusk with free admission. It is across from Savannah History Museum, so the museum can help orient visitors but is not required for outdoor access. This is a walkable memorial landscape, not a roadside marker with only a pull-off. Visitors should read the reconstructed redoubt and modern stones as interpretive features, then consider the siege's coalition politics, the cost of the assault, and the later effort to recover battlefield evidence in a busy downtown setting.