200 Years: A Bicentennial Illustrated History of the United States, Volume 1Books by U.S. News & World Report, 1973 - United States |
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Page 153
... guns battered Yorktown day and night , giving Cornwallis's artillerymen no rest . British guns disappeared as embrasures were blown up . More bat- teries joined the allied chorus each day . Cornwallis's reports to Clinton became ...
... guns battered Yorktown day and night , giving Cornwallis's artillerymen no rest . British guns disappeared as embrasures were blown up . More bat- teries joined the allied chorus each day . Cornwallis's reports to Clinton became ...
Page 196
... gun- boats of Captain Thomas Macdonough . On the morning of September 11 , the two flotillas clashed at short range in ... guns to bear . The pivoting maneuver proved decisive . The frigate struck . With the loss of the Confidence ...
... gun- boats of Captain Thomas Macdonough . On the morning of September 11 , the two flotillas clashed at short range in ... guns to bear . The pivoting maneuver proved decisive . The frigate struck . With the loss of the Confidence ...
Page 294
... guns , and the men was marched off , and the general said that they should go to the work house and be confined ... gun out of his hands and struck him on the head and ordered him to be put under guard . Saturday , 2d .... then they read ...
... guns , and the men was marched off , and the general said that they should go to the work house and be confined ... gun out of his hands and struck him on the head and ordered him to be put under guard . Saturday , 2d .... then they read ...
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