Grand American Battery - Yorktown, VA, USA
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Don.Morfe
N 37° 13.681 W 076° 29.888
18S E 367097 N 4121218
The capture of British Redoubts 9 and 10 enabled the Americans to quickly finish the Allied Second Siege Line, constructing the Grand American Battery within point blank artillery range of the British Inner Defensive Line.
Waymark Code: WM128Z2
Location: Virginia, United States
Date Posted: 04/01/2020
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Grand American Battery 1781 Siege of Yorktown
— Colonial National Historical Park —
“The Works which we carried are of vast importance to us. From them we shall enfilade the enemy’s whole line … ”
General George Washington to the President of Congress, October 16, 1781.
The capture of British Redoubts 9 and 10 enabled the Americans to quickly finish the Allied Second Siege Line, constructing the Grand American Battery within point blank artillery range of the British Inner Defensive Line. On October 17, Continental artillery crews began bombarding the British from their new battery. According to Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Dearborn of the 1st New Hampshire Regiment, the allied barrage that day “made the Enemies situation so very disagreeable. – that about the middle of the day his Lordship was induced to send out a flag, with some proposels for a Capitulation.”
The following day officers from both sides met at the home of Augustine Moore to negotiate the British surrender terms.
Grand American Battery Artillery:
7 – 18 pounder siege guns
3 – 24 pounder siege guns
8 – mortars
4 – howitzers
Group that erected the marker: Colonial National Historical Park, National Park Service.
Address of where the marker is located. Approximate if necessary:
Ballard Street (Virginia Route 238)
Yorktown Battlefield in Colonial National Historical Park, at stop D on the Battlefield Tour.
Yorktown, VA USA
23690
URL of a web site with more information about the history mentioned on the sign: Not listed
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