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MJ.781.022
11 Dec 1781:23 (8/52 432)
From the New-York Royal Gazette, of November 24, 1781. Mr.
James Rivington, Printer, &c.
York-Town, Virginia, Octob. the 24th, 1781.
Sir, I have the mortification to inform your Excellency that
I have been forced to give up the posts of York and
Gloucester, and to surrender the troops under my command, by
capitulation, on the nineteenth inst. as prisoners of war,
to the combined forces of America and France.
. . . [13 paragraphs describing the battle.]
Return of the killed, wounded and missing of the British
Army, from the 28th September, to the 19th October, 1781.
Total-- . . . 4 drummer killed . . .
. . . 11 drummer wounded . . .
[signed] Cornwallis
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