May 2d. No occurrence of note. A very fresh and steady gale of Wind all day from the So. East. Upon its shifting (about dusk) it blew violently, & continued boisterous through the Night or greatest part of it.
[Diary entry: 2 May 1781]
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- [Diary entry: 2 May 1781]
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- Washington, George
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- 2 May 1781
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- Year: Yorktown: A Victor’s View
- Month: May 1781
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- “[Diary entry: 2 May 1781],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-03-02-0007-0001-0003. [Original source: The Diaries of George Washington, vol. 3, 1 January 1771–5 November 1781, ed. Donald Jackson. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1978, p. 358.]