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Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794 [Return of Ordnance associated with the siege of Yorktown].

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.01248 Author/Creator: Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794 Place Written: Yorktown, Virginia Type: Autograph document Date: 19 October 1781 Pagination: 4 p. Order a Copy

One side lists muskets, damaged arms, balls and shells that have been sent up the Chesapeake Bay, reserved for the Southern Army, remaining in Virginia, and fired at the British. The other side lists muskets, damaged arms, balls and shells that have been sent from various locations or seized from the British.

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

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