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NHG-P.781.022
17 Nov 1781:31 (26/1307)
Articles of Capitulation, settled between his excellency
General Washington, Commander in Chief of the combined
forces of America and France; His excellency Count De
Rochambeau, Lieutenant-General of the Armies of the King of
France, Great Cross of the Royal Military Order of St.
Louis, commanding the auxiliary troops of his most Christian
Majesty in America; and his excellency the Count de Grasse,
Lieutenant-General of the naval armies of his most Christian
Majesty, Commander of the Order of St. Louis, commanding in
chief the naval army of France, in the Chesapeake, on the
one part, and the right honorable Earl Cornwallis,
Lieutenant General of his Britannic Majesty's forces,
commanding the garrisons of York and Gloucester, and Thomas
Simmonds, Esq; commanding his Britannic majesty's forces in
York-River, in Virginia, on the other part: . . . [14 lines]
Article III. At twelve o'clock this day the two redoubts
on the left flank of York to be delivered, the one to a
detachment of American infantry, the other to a detachment
of French grenadiers. The garrison of York will march out
to a place to be appointed, in front of the post at two
o'clock precisely, with shouldered arms, colours cased, and
drums beating a British or German march. . . [94 lines]
[signed] Cornwallis. Thos. Simmonds. Published by order of
Congress, Charles Thomson, Sec'ry.
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