Artillery Of Independence, Siege Of Yorktown, Virginia, October 9, 1781 The troops had received General

The troops had received General Washington’s announcement in yesterday’s daily orders

Sergeant Of The Hessian Grenadier Regiment

and informed her husband that it was he who had saved her life from the fury of an angry Tory

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some helped along by comrades

Artillery Of Independence, Siege Of Yorktown, Virginia, October 9, 1781 The troops had received General350 Signed Numbered Overall: 31. 25" x 24. 25" Image: 27" x 20" $225. 00 George Washington Firing the First American Artillery Round at Yorktown The annus mirabilis, the year of miracles, was about to reach its grand finale when his aides informed George Washington in the early afternoon of 9 October 1781, that the time had come to open the American artillery on Lord Cornwallis. On 14 September, four weeks after he had left Phillipsburg on 18 August,