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CC-H.781.062
6 Nov 1781:23 (876)
Head-Quarters, Continental Village, Oct. 18. The General is
happy in congratulating this army, on the following
authentic and interesting intelligence, received from the
southward, viz.
That on the fifteenth instant two of the enemy's redoubts at
York-Town were stormed, one by the Americans, the other by
the French troops, and carried with very little loss. These
redoubts gave the allied army, in a great measure, the
command of the other works of the enemy; who on the
seventeenth beat a parley, and on the nineteenth Earl
Cornwallis with his army surrendered to the allied army
under the command of his Excellency General Washington. . .
[11 lines] [signed H. Sewall, Aid de Camp. . . [3 lines]
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