Second Allied Siege Line - Yorktown, VA
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N 37° 13.568 W 076° 30.350
18S E 366411 N 4121020
A plaque at the parking lot for the Yorktown National Cemetery.
Waymark Code: WMQMYE
Location: Virginia, United States
Date Posted: 03/05/2016
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The plaque says, "At the present distance of our batteries … they might fire till Christmas without materially lessening the enemy’s force …. I am impatient to get nearer to the enemy, that our work may be more speedily accomplished, and our ammunition not thrown away.
Colonel Timothy Pickering, Quartermaster General, Continental Army
You are standing near the left side of the reconstructed Second Siege Line. A large portion of the line – to Cornwallis’s consternation – was constructed under the cover of darkness, October 11 and 12, 1781. At daybreak, the British saw that their enemy now had them within point-blank artillery range, just 360 yards away."
Type of Historic Marker: Plaque
Historical Marker Issuing Authority: National Park Service
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