The Yorktown Campaign and the Surrender of Cornwallis, 1781Harper & brothers, 1881 - 206 Seiten |
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advance American arms arrived artillery attack 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 fire fleet force French garrison Gimat's Gloucester Green Spring guns head-quarters honor horse hundred James James River Jamestown Island Journal June killed Lafayette Lafayette's land Lauzun Legion letter Lieutenant Lieutenant-colonel Light Infantry Lord Cornwallis loss Major Major-general Marquis Memoirs miles militia morning move movements naval night North Carolina o'clock October officers opened operations orders Pennsylvania Philadelphia prisoners rank and file re-enforcements redoubts Regiment retreat Revolution Richmond riflemen river Rochambeau Scammell's second parallel sergeant siege Siege of York Siege of Yorktown Simcoe soldiers South Steuben surrender Tarleton Tarleton's Legion town troops Viomenil Virginia Washington Wayne Williamsburg wounded wrote York Yorktown