Record ID:
136894
Accession number:
MA 488.10
Credit:
Acquired before 1927.
Description:
1 item (3 p.) ; 23.3 cm
Notes:
Docketed.
Removed in 1927 from Irving's Life of Washington, v. III.
This item is part of a collection of letters and documents concerning the siege of Yorktown and the surrender of Cornwallis; see main record for MA 488-489 for more information.
Summary:
Describing how Cornwallis's men "abandoned their advanced chain of works, ... leaving two enclosed Redoubts almost within point blank shot of their principal fortifications,"; reporting that "these works were immediately possessed by the allied troops," and they are now planning an attack on Cornwallis's quarters; discussing what will be necessary to make Cornwallis surrender; mentioning General [Nathanael] Greene, the Marquis de Lafayette, and George Washington.
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