This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 edition. Excerpt: ...surrounded it with a line of earthworks. Of the ten redoubts in this line two covered the right, facing the river-road to Williamsburg; three stood back of the town, and three on the left, looking down the river; the two remaining redouhts, known as Nos. 9 and 10, stood disconnected in advance of, and ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 edition. Excerpt: ...surrounded it with a line of earthworks. Of the ten redoubts in this line two covered the right, facing the river-road to Williamsburg; three stood back of the town, and three on the left, looking down the river; the two remaining redouhts, known as Nos. 9 and 10, stood disconnected in advance of, and as an additional strength to, the left. A projecting redoubt, called the Horn-work, commanded the road to Hampton. In the fourteen batteries constructed along the line sixty-five guns had been mounted, none of which were larger than eighteen-pounders, and to obtain some of these the frigate Charon, in the river, had been stripped of her armament. These were the immediate defences of Yorktown; but as the ground beyond, especially on the left, would favor a besieging force, and as the defences themselves were not complete when the place was threatened, Cornwallis determined to take up a good outer position also, about a half a mile in advance of his inner line. He describes it as "a strong position out of the town." Above Yorktown a ravine extended from the river nearly half-way around the inner works; below, 1 The incidents of the 28th are gathered from Washington's "Journal," " Orderly Book of the Siege of Yorktown," Tarleton's "Campaigns," Deuxpont's "Campaigns," "Journal," in Martin's Gazetteer of Virginia, Pickering's "Journal," etc. Wormley Creek sets up. These two natural obstructions protected the flanks, and contracted the distance to be fortified in solid ground between them to little more than half a mile. This site was somewhat elevated, and a few works would be sufficient to secure it. It is mentioned as the "gorge" or throat of land between ravine and...
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Book 1781, Special editoin for Comte Grasse DAR
Publisher:
Harper & Brothers
Published:
1881
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
14154347242
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Good. No dust jacket. Ex-library. 206 p. incl. front., port., maps, facsim. 23 cm. Includes: Maps, Portraits, Facsimiles. "List of original authorities on the campaign": p. 195-197