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NHG-P.781.024
24 Nov 1781:21,22 (26/1308)
General Return of officers and privates surrendered
prisoners of war, the 19th of October, 1781, to the allied
army under the command of his excellency General Washington,
taken from the original muster rolls.
General and Staff . . . [10 lines]
Artillery. . . 4 drums, 193 rank and file, . . .
Guards . . . 12 drums, 467 rank and file. . .
Light-Infantry. . . 13 drums, 594 rank and file. . .
17th Regiment. . . 13 drums, 205 rank and file. . .
33d Regiment. . . 9 drums, 225 rank and file. . .
43d Regiment. . . 16 drums, 307 rank and file. . .
71st Regiment. . . 9 drums, 242 rank and file. . .
76th Regiment. . . 12 drums, 628 rank and file. . .
80th Regiment. . . 20 drums, 588 rank and file. . .
Two Battalions Anspach. . . 25 drums, 948 rank and file . .
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Prince Hereditary. . . 1 drums, 425 rank and file . . .
Regiment de Bose. . . 16 drums, 271 rank and file . . .
Yagers. . . 1 trumpet, 68 rank and file . . .
British Legion. . . 7 trumpeters, 192 rank and file . . .
Queen's Rangers . . . 5 trumpeters, 248 rank and file . . .
Total, 179 drums and trumpeters, 6039 rank and file. . .
[Under "Camp Colours"]
German thirty two, British fourty first. - total 73
Drums good sixty two, damaged nineteen. - total 81
Drum slings eighteen, fife cases ten, fife slings seven,
trumpet one
Bugle horns eighteen, French horns five, - total 23 . . .
[signed] H. Knox, commanding the artillery of the United
States.
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