George Washington Papers

[Diary entry: 16 August 1781]

16th. Letters from the Marqs. de la Fayette & others, inform that Lord Cornwallis with the Troops from Hampton Road, had proceeded up York River & landed at York & Gloucester Towns where they were throwing up Works on the 6th. Inst.1

1. Lafayette to GW, 11 Aug. 1781 (DLC:GW).

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    [Diary entry: 16 August 1781]
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    Washington, George
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    16 August 1781

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    “[Diary entry: 16 August 1781],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-03-02-0007-0004-0012. [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. 411.]