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 sent sergeant siege Siege of Yorktown Simcoe soldiers South Steuben surrender Tarleton Tarleton's Legion town troops Viomenil Virginia Washington Wayne Williamsburg wounded wrote York York river Yorktown
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Seite 180 - he would have taken a ball in his breast," replied Lord George. For he opened his arms, exclaiming wildly, as he paced up and down the apartment during, a few minutes, " Oh, God ! it is all over !" Words which he repeated many times, under emotions of the deepest agitation and distress.
Seite 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.
Seite 186 - ... 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 70 - States 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...
Seite 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...
Seite 70 - ... 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...
Seite 181 - Virginia. I particularly lament it, on account of the consequences connected with it, and the difficulties which it may produce in carrying on the public business, or in repairing such a misfortune. But I trust that neither Lord George Germain, nor any member of the cabinet, will suppose, that it makes the smallest alteration in those principles of my conduct, which have directed me in past time, and which will always continue to animate me under every event, in the prosecution of the present contest.
Seite 179 - He requests the gentlemen above mentioned to communicate his thanks to the officers and soldiers of their respective commands. Ingratitude, which the General hopes never to be guilty of, would be conspicuous in him was he to omit thanking in the warmest terms his Excellency Governor Nelson for the aid he derived from him and from the militia under his command...
Seite 180 - When the first agitation of their minds had subsided, the four ministers discussed the question, whether or not it might be expedient to prorogue parliament for a few days ; but, as scarcely an interval of forty-eight hours remained before the appointed time of assembling, and as many members of both houses were already either arrived in London, or on the road, that proposition was abandoned. It became, however, indispensable to alter, and almost model anew the king's speech, which had been already...