 | Washington Irving - 1901 - 650 pages
...hostilities for twentyfour hours, and that two officers might be appointed by each side to meet and settle terms for the surrender of the posts of York and Gloucester. Washington felt unwilling to grant such delay, when reenforcements might be on the way for Cornwallis... | |
 | Elroy McKendree Avery - United States - 1909 - 648 pages
...hostilities and the appointment of two The Surrender of Cornwallis Moore House at Yorktown officers on each side "to meet at Mr. Moore's house to settle terms for the surrender." Washington granted two hours for the submission of proposals in writing; in the afternoon, the proposals... | |
 | Elisha Benjamin Andrews - United States - 1909 - 632 pages
...hostilities and the appointment of two The Surrender of Cornwallis Moore House at Yorktown officers on each side "to meet at Mr. Moore's house to settle terms for the surrender." Washington granted two hours for the submission of proposals in writing; in the afternoon, the proposals... | |
 | Charlemagne Tower - Biography & Autobiography - 1914 - 324 pages
...Cornwallis had sent a flag of truce to General Washington with a note, which read as follows : "I propose a cessation of hostilities for twentyfour hours, and...the surrender of the posts of York and Gloucester." Two days later, the British army marching out of Yorktown in the presence of the allied French and... | |
 | American literature - 1917 - 744 pages
...on the 17th of October, Earl Cornwallis sent his swan song to George Washington: SIR — I propose a cessation of hostilities for twenty-four hours,...officers may be appointed by each side, to meet at Mrs. Moore's house, to settle terms of surrender of the ports of York and Gloucester. Item: United... | |
 | George Washington - 1925 - 480 pages
...hours,2 that Commissioners might meet at the house of a Mr. Moore3 (in the rear of our first parallel) to settle terms, for the surrender of the Posts of York and Gloucester. To this he was answered, that a desire to spare the further effusion of Blood would readily incline... | |
 | John Marshall - Presidents - 1926 - 474 pages
...hours, that commissioners might meet at Moore's house, which was just in the rear of the first parallel, to settle terms for the surrender of the posts of York and Gloucester. To this letter General Washington returned an immediate answer declaring his "ardent desire to spare... | |
 | Joseph Dillaway Sawyer - 1927 - 650 pages
...Octr., 1781 "Sir: "I propose a cessation of hostilities for twenty-four hours, and that two officers be appointed by each side to meet at Mr. Moore's house...surrender of the posts of York and Gloucester. "I have the honor to be, Sir, "Your most obedient and humble servant, "Cornwallis. "His Excellency "General Washington."1... | |
 | Charles Marshall - Generals - 1927 - 372 pages
...Yorktown, his lordship proposed in his letter of October 17, 1781, "a cessation of hostilities for 24 hours, and that two officers may be appointed by each...side to meet at Mr. Moore's house to settle terms of surrender of the posts of York and Gloucester." In view of this letter, and of the fact that Cornwallis... | |
 | Army War College (U.S.). Historical Section, Howard Lee Landers - United States - 1931 - 246 pages
...from Lord Cornwallis to General Washington read: I propose a cessation of hostilities for twenty four hours, and that two officers may be appointed by each...the surrender of the posts of York and Gloucester. Washington's reply to the letter, granting a suspension of hostilities for two hours, was as follows:... | |
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SIR, I propose a cessation of hostilities for twenty-four hours, and that two officers may be appointed by each side, to meet at Mr. Moore's house, to settle terms for the surrender of the posts of York and Gloucester. 
