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"The American troops encamped in a wood within a mile of the Enemy's left line - and the French troops encamped on their right."Lieutenant William Feltman, Pennsylvania Battalion, September 28, 1781
On September 28, 1781, as General Washington'…
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News of the Allies' victory at Yorktown spread rapidly. On October 20, 1781, Washington sent his aide, Lieutenant Tench Tilghman, to Philadelphia to notify the Continental Congress. Tilghman departed Yorktown by boat, landing near Annapolis on the…
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The Grand French Battery formed part of the first Allied siege line around Yorktown. French and American soldiers worked through the night of October 6, 1781, to establish the line from a point about one hundred yards to your left (across the road…
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"The column marched in silence, with guns unloaded, and in good order: Many, no doubt, thinking that less than one quarter of a mile would finish the journey of life ? "Captain Stephen Olney, 1st Rhode Island Regiment
The Marquis de Lafayette s…
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" ? once we were inside the redoubt. People of four nations were thrown together: Frenchmen, English, Scots, and Germans ?."Private Georg Flohr, Royal Deux-Ponts Regiment
" ? a trait which characterized the French grenadiers ?. They ? charged l…
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At the present distance of our batteries ? they might fire till Christmas without materially lessening the enemy's force ?. I am impatient to get nearer to the enemy, that our work may be more speedily accomplished, and our ammunition not thrown a…
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"The next night, which was the sixth of October ? We this night completed laying out the works. The troops of the line were there ready with entrenching tools and began to entrench, after General Washington had struck a few blows with a pickax, a …
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"The ? batteries were principally directed against ? the enemys advanced redoubts on their extreme ? left to prepare them for the intended assault ?"General George Washington's Diary, October 14, 1781.
The completion of the Allied Second Siege …
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"The Works which we carried are of vast importance to us. From them we shall enfilade the enemy's whole line ? " General George Washington to the President of Congress, October 16, 1781.
The capture of British Redoubts 9 and 10 enabled the Amer…
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Near this spot on the afternoon of October 19, 1781 - as silence prevailed among the Allied soldiers and onlookers - all eyes were trained on the approaching British troops. Cornwallis, sending word that he was ill, appointed his second in command…