15th. Busily employed in getting the Batteries of the Second parallel compleated, and fixing on New ones contiguous to the Redoubts which were taken last Night. Placed two Hawitzers in each of the Captured Redoubts wch. were opened upon the enemy about 5 oclock in the Afternoon.
[Diary entry: 15 October 1781]
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- Washington, George
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- 15 October 1781
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- Year: Yorktown: A Victor’s View
- Month: October 1781
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- “[Diary entry: 15 October 1781],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-03-02-0007-0006-0009. [Original source: The Diaries of George Washington, vol. 3, 1 January 1771–5 November 1781, ed. Donald Jackson. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1978, pp. 428–429.]