16th. The Cannon & Stores were got out of the Vessels & every thing being removed from Tarry town, two french twelve pounders, & one of our 18 prs. wer[e] brought to bear upon the Ships which lay of Tarry town, distant about a Mile, and obliged them to remove lower down & move over to the West shore.
[Diary entry: 16 July 1781]
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- [Diary entry: 16 July 1781]
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- Washington, George
- Date
- 16 July 1781
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- Year: Yorktown: A Victor’s View
- Month: [July 1781]
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- “[Diary entry: 16 July 1781],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-03-02-0007-0003-0012. [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. 394.]