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CJ-NH.781.052
8 Nov 1781:13 (732)
Head-Quarters, Continental Village, October 29. . . [4 lines
introduction] That on the fifteenth instant two of the
enemy's redoubts at York-Town were stormed, one by the
American the other by the French troops, and carried with
very little loss. These redoubts gave the allied army, in
great measure, the command of the other works of the enemy;
who on the seventeenth beat a parley, and on the nineteenth
Earl Cornwallis with his army surrendered to the allied army
under the command of his Excellency General Washington. . .
[4 lines describing number of prisoners, 9 more lines
describing preparations for "fue de joye."] Transcript of
General Orders, H. Sewell, Aid de Camp.
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