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Title: Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ..
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Northrop, Henry Davenport, 1836-1909
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Publisher: Philadelphia, National pub co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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st Cornwallis. Cornwallis was very slow to realize hisdanger. He believed the small force underLafayette the only command opposed to him,and on the tenth of September wrote to Clintonthat he could spare him twelve hundred menfor the defence of New York. He did notperceive his error until the French fleet had THE CLOSE OF THE WAR. 473 anchored in the Chesapeake and cut off hisescape by water. He then attempted toretreat to North Carohna, as Washingtonhad foreseen, but Lafayette, who had beenreinforced by three thousand French troopsunder the Marquis de Sta Simon, from thefleet of De Grasse, was too active for him,3.nd finding his retreat impossible, CornwalHs the British, and on the ninth of October thecannonade was begun. It was continued forfour days, and the British outworks weregreatly damaged, and several of their vesselsin the river were burned by means of red-hot shot thrown into them by the Frenchvessels. On the fourteenth two of the ad-vanced redoubts of the enemv were stormed
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VIEW OF YORKTOWN. sent urgent appeals to Clinton for assistance,and strengthened his fortifications. In the meantime the American and Frencharmies descended the Chesapeake, and tookposition before Yorktown, while the Frenchfleet closed the mouth of York river. Thesiege was begun on the twenty-eight of Sep-tember. Sixteen thousand men were pre-sent under Washingtons orders. WorksWere erected completely enclosing those of and taken, one by the Americans, the otherby the French. From the positions thusgained a very destructive fire was maintainedupon the English lines, which were brokenin many places, while many of their gunswere dismounted and rendered useless. Onthe fifteenth Cornwallis found himself al-most out of ammunition, and unable tomaintain his position but for a few dayslonger. 1 474 THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. In this strait the British commander re-solved upon the desperate alternative of cross-ing the York to Gloucester, abandoning hissick and wounded and baggage, and endeavor

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