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Creative Writing: Siege of Yorktown
It was four o'clock in the morning when my commanding officer awoke me
and we were ordered to prepare to march. We had set up an extensive camp at
Chatham in New York, we all believed that we would attack New York City. It
turned out that we were marching on towards Yorktown.
When we arrived at Yorktown the bay was full of French ships. Our army
along with the Fren ....
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.... cannons fired simultaneously. Since we
were firing from 150 ft. away our cannons had a devastating effect. Later,
during the second afternoon the Sappers and Miners, including myself were issued
axes and we were instructed to chop a path through the abatis (the tops of trees
cut with a slanting stroke to act as spikes) they were nearly impossible to get
through. As American and French soldiers rushed through the British ran in
terror, only minor hand to hand combat t ....
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