The History of Connecticut, From the First Settlement of the Colony to the Adoption of the Present Constitution 2
The History of Connecticut, From the First Settlement of the Colony to the Adoption of the Present Constitution 2
G H Gideon Hiram Hollister
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Colonel Tallmadge died in Litchfield, March 7, 1835. He had four sons and two or three daughters. 416 HISTORY OF CONNECTICUT. British service, Du Barras entered the bay along with several transports loaded with heavy artillery, for the siege of York- town. The combined armies of America and France soon formed a junction with Lafayette at Williamsburg, from which point, the plan of operations having been previously arranged, they commenced their march against Cornwallis. The French troops now am...ounted to seven thousand ; the continentals numbered five thousand five hundred ; and about three thousand five hundred Virginia militia, under General Nelson, had assembled in Lafayette's camp. The besieging army thus amounted to about sixteen thousand men. The British force at Yorktown, consisting of about eight thousand troops, had strongly fortified themselves, and works had been thrown up in the vicinity to impede the approach of the Americans. The most interesting event of the siege was the simultaneous storming of two of these out-posts.
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