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Creative Writing: Siege Of Yorktown - School Essays

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 French encircled Cornwallis. Cornwallis did not surrender, he
waited for a larger British fleet to save him.
Being in the Corps of Sappers and Miners we were to prepare mines and
trenches. On the night of October 5th we sneaked within 150 ft. of the British
lines. We were under heavy protection, for it was a dark and rainy ...

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we dug our trenches. When dawn came around they saw their mistake and
started firing on us but no harm was done. It took nine days to dig all of the
trenches. Finally on October 15th we were prepared to start the siege.
As the American Flag rose ten 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 took place. Soon afterwords the British
handed over their regimental flags and stacked their weapons in a pile. That
was it the war was ...

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Added: 10/28/2004 02:24:14 AM
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