General british troops yorktown
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Both Sat and Sunday
10 a.m. defile 4 p.m.
-Patrolling of Beleaguering & h Streets
-Medical Bighead at depiction Nelson Igloo Yard
-Colonial blacksmith display & demonstration socialize with York Hall
-Camp followers preparation & wash demonstration Amidst Sommerwell-Cole Digges House
10 a.m. to p.m.
-Manning Redoubt 9 on Besieging Battlefield
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-Royal Artillery conifer
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General George Washington led the fledgling United States to victory over the British at the Battle of Yorktown in October of
The Army Heritage Trail commemorates the American and French triumph with the Redoubt 10 exhibit. Redoubt 10 was part of British General Charles Cornwallis' defenses ringing Yorktown during the battle. The redoubt was manned by British troops and assaulted by Continental Soldiers commanded by LTC Alexander Hamilton.
Our scale replica features many of the same defensive works as the original redoubt in Yorktown, including dirt-filled gabions, timber palisades, and a ditch leading to the steep sides of the fortification. In addition, the exhibit contains several period artillery pieces, including two eighteen pounder cannons with a commanding view of Interstate 81 and two twenty-four pounder mortars.
In late September , the American and French troops under General George Washington finally achieved the upper-hand on Lord Cornwallis' British Army. The British force under Cornwallis spent the summer of raiding Continental Army logistics throughout Virginia, and decided to settle in Yorktown, Virginia to defend against possible American counter attacks. The British general chose Yorktown because its deep harbor allowed for reinforcement
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Revolutionary War Yorktown
With his back to the York River, British General Charles Lord Cornwallis intended to resupply and refit his 9, man army in the fall of Sensing an opportunity, General George Washington’s Continental Army, close to 20, strong, now reinforced by several thousand French troops led by Comte de Rochambeau, opted to lay siege to Cornwallis’s Army. After a grueling forced march beginning in New York, the Franco-American army arrived near Yorktown, Virginia on September 28 and immediately began the hard work of laying siege to Cornwallis and his men.
Cornwallis had thrown up a series of redoubts on the outskirts of Yorktown while the majority of his men hunkered down in the town. When the American and French army arrived at Yorktown the French secured the left flank and the Americans the right. The Royal Navy had intended to sail up the Chesapeake Bay in order to provide supplies and much needed reinforcements to the encircled Cornwallis, however, no such aid materialized. On September 5, the British aid and resupply fleet was met by French warships at Battle of the Capes, was heavily defeated, and was furthermore forced to abandon the British Army at Yorktown. Cornwallis was trapped.
With the help of French engineers, American and French troops began to