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and took 500 prisoners and all their
guns Tarleton escaped with only go
men, The American loss was only u
killed and 81 wounded. BY most skill
full strategy Greene moved the two
parts Of his army northwaTd in con-
verging lines until they met at Gull
ford Court House. Here a battle took
place on March Is, 1871, and Cornwall
lis, though he had the nominal vic
tory, holding the field and repulsing
the Americans, lost nearly one-third
of his troops and had to retreat to Will
mington, and finally moved back to
Virginia, arriving at Petersburg on
May 20. Greene, following his victori-
Gus enemy according TO his usual Gus
tom, pursued CORVALLIS for fifty miles,
then faced about and marched $50
miles to Camden and recaptured it,
and having reduced all the inland
posts, finally met the enemy in the
obstinate battle of Eutaw Springs on
the Sth of September, both sides claim
ing the victory. This part of the Brit
ish then stayed in Charleston under
the protection of their fleet
CORVALLIS meanwhile had 5000 men
at Petersburg and Benedict Arnold was
recalled to New York. Lafayette was
at Richmond with 5000 men. In a nine
weeks campaign CORVALLIS vainly en-
deayored to force Lafayette to a bat
tie, and finally Lafayette, reinforced by
Steuben and Wayne, pursued Cornwall
| lis to the coast, where in July he found
himself at Yorktown with 5000 men.
What was Washington doing? He
| planned with remarkable generalship
and with equally remarkable celebrity
and secrecy executed the movement
which led to the destruction of Corn
wallis and virtually closed the war.
| Knowing that an immense French
| fleet under Count de GraSSe was ap-
preaching the Chesapeake Bay, Wash
Iington moved Rochambeau from Rhode
! Island across Connecticut to the Hud-
son river, left small force there and
| then started with Rochambeau on his
/ superb march to Virginia after Corn
| wallis. Sir Henry Clinton supposed
| that the French fleet was bound to New
| York and that Washington had started
/ to meet it at Staten Island, and it was
not until Washington had passed Phil
adelphia that it dawned upon Sir Hen
ry that Washington might be bound
/ for Virginia. 1t was too late to retrieve
the error, and the attempted diversion
made by Benedict Arnold at New Lon
don was both cruel and futile. On the
10Th of September Washington Joined
with Lafayette and with $4,000 men, of
which 1000 were Frenchmen, bottled
up" CORVALLIS on the peninsula of
Yorktown.
We turn now to the French fleet. 1t
was in two divisions, one under de
BaTraS of eight ships of the line and
eighteen transports with $500 men and
train of heavy artillery. 1t sailed
from Newport, r. l., in August for the
Chesapeake, making wide detour to
avoid Hood, the British admiral, and
his fleet. De Grasse had raised money
at Havana for the Americans, who
were, as we have seen, in sore need,
and sailed with twenty-eight ships of
the line through the Bahamas and an
chored just outside the .capes of the
Chesapeake. Hood had looked into the
Chesapeake just before this, and not
! finding the French fleet there, sailed
on to New York and joined Admiral
Graves, who took command, being the
senior admiral, and the fleet, now of
nineteen line of battle ships, went back
/ to the Chesapeake.
| De Grasse went out to meet Graves.
| The English with 10 ships attacked
| the French who had "a They ma
neuvered and fought some but no de-
| cided advantage was gained by either
side. Before de Barras had slipped
| in and landed the seige artillery and
! troops. Graves, finding the situation
! hopeless sailed back to New York and
| de Grasse anchored and blocked the
James and York rivers thus making an
| effectual blockade of CORVALLIS on the
seaside Now about the seige. Corn
| wallis had fortified the town with Z
redoubts and 6 batteries on the land
side and a line of batteries along the
river Gloucester point on the oppo-
site side of York river was also forth
fed, and in the river was a number of
British vessels. The allied forces
drew their parallels, the French given
the post of honor at the front. The
batteries opened on the 9th October,
1871 On the 18th the second parallel
was only 800 yards from the forts. The
14th witnessed an assault when the
French and Americans each captured
a redoubt. The Americans were led by
Alexander Hamilton. Lafayette had
a command in the American army. The
cannonade continued. By the 18th the
British Notifications were almost de-
stroyed and most of their guns dis
mounted An attempted escape by the
British by night to Gloucester point
was defeated by a storm which de-
strOyed their boats. On the 10Th Octo-
Der, the day we this evening celebrate,
Lord CORVALLIS surrendered. The
allied armies were drawn up in two
lines. the French headed by Rocham-
beau on one side and the Americans
headed by Washington on the other,
and the British troops marched out be-
tween the two and laid down their
arms, Washington forbidding any huz-
zas and saying that history would do
the huzzaing. To the French were sur
rendered the two British frigates and
20 transports that remained. To the
Americans were surrendered 1000 pris-
onerS $1,000 of which were wounded)
235 pieces of cannon, 5000 stand of
arms, % regimental colors. The Bri-
fish loss was $50 and the allies 800.
1t is said that the humiliation to
Lord CORVALLIS was so great that he