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[Return of prisoners taken at the surrender of the British garrisons of Yorktown and Gloucester, Virginia]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.10665 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Manuscript document Date: 19 October 1781 Pagination: 2 p. : docket ; Height: 33.2 cm, Width: 41.4 cm Order a Copy

Lists numbers of prisoners taken 19 October 1781 in the British surrender of Yorktown (excluding marine prisoners). Docketed by Knox's aide-de-camp, Samuel Shaw: "Prisoners of War under [Earl] Cornwallis."

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