The Yorktown Campaign and the Surrender of Cornwallis, 1781 |
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advance allied army American arms arrived artillery attack Baron battalion batteries brigade BRIGADIER-GENERAL British army camp campaign capitulation Captain cavalry Chesapeake Clinton Colonel command commander-in-chief Continental corps Court House Creek crossed defence despatch detachment Deuxponts dragoons EARL CORNWALLIS encamped enemy enemy's field fire fleet force French garrison Gimat's Gloucester Green Spring guns head-quarters honor horse hundred James James River Jamestown Island June killed Lafayette Lafayette's land Lauzun Legion letter Lieutenant Lieutenant-colonel Light Infantry Lord Cornwallis loss Major Major-general Marquis miles militia morning move movements naval night North Carolina o'clock October officers opened operations orders Pennsylvania prisoners rank and file re-enforcements redoubts Regiment retreat Richmond riflemen river road Rochambeau Scammell's second parallel sent sergeant siege SIEGE OF YORKTOWN Simcoe soldiers South Steuben surrender Tarleton Tarleton's Legion thousand town troops Viomenil Virginia Washington Wayne Williamsburg wounded wrote York Yorktown
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Page 161 - That the House would consider as enemies to his majesty and the country all those who should advise, or by any means attempt, the further prosecution of offensive war on the Continent of North America.
Page 71 - Instead of having magazines filled with provisions, we have a scanty pittance scattered here and there in the different states. "Instead of having our arsenals well supplied with military stores, they are poorly provided, and the workmen all leaving them.
Page 188 - A field-officer from each nation, to wit, British, Anspach, and Hessian, and other officers on parole, in the proportion of one to fifty men to be allowed to reside near their respective regiments, to visit them frequently, and be witnesses of their treatment...
Page 188 - The soldiers to be kept in Virginia, Maryland, or Pennsylvania, and as much by regiments as possible, and supplied with the same rations of provisions as are allowed to soldiers in the service of America. A...
Page 28 - I should certainly have endeavored to have stopped you; as I did then as well as now consider such a move likely to be dangerous to our interests in the southern colonies.
Page 72 - ... instead of having the regiments completed to the new establishment, which ought to have been done agreeably to the requisitions of Congress, scarce any State in the Union has at this hour an eighth part of its quota in the field, and little prospect that I can see of ever getting more than half...
Page 186 - ... in their present state to an officer of the navy appointed to take possession of them. The artillery, arms, accoutrements, military chest, and public stores of every denomination, shall be delivered unimpaired, to the heads of departments, to which they respectively belong.
Page 72 - States (as the dernier ressorf) to provide these things for their troops respectively. Instead of having a regular system of transportation established upon credit . . . or funds in the quartermaster's hands to defray the contingent expenses...
Page 183 - Our numbers had been diminished by the enemy's fire, but particularly by sickness, and the strength and spirits of those in the works were much exhausted, by the fatigue of constant watching and unremitting duty.
Page 105 - ... the General particularly enjoins the Troops to place their principal reliance on the bayonet, that they may prove the vanity of the boast which the British make of their peculiar prowess in deciding battles with that weapon.