Citation - New Jersey Gazette-Trenton: 1781.10.31

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Index Entry Drums, in Yorktown, beat British or German march in British capitulation 
Location Yorktown 
Citation
NJG-T.781.025
31 Oct 1781:22,23 (4/201)
Articles of Capitulation . . . [between Washington and
Cornwallis at Yorktown] . . .
Art. III. At 12 o'clock this day the two redoubts on the
left flank of York to be delivered . . . The garrison of
York will march out to a place to be appointed, in front of
the posts, at two o'clock precisely, with shouldered arms,
colours cased, and drums beating a British or German march-
they are then to ground their arms and return to their
encampment, . . . [6 lines, the works on the Gloucester side
to be delivered] the cavalry with their swords drawn,
trumpets sounding, . . . 


Generic Title New Jersey Gazette-Trenton 
Date 1781.10.31 
Publisher Collins, Isaac 
City, State Trenton, NJ 
Year 1781 
Bibliography B0024829
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