Capture of Redoubt No. 10

At the Siege of Yorktown on October 14, 1781, at night, the battalions of Gimat, Hamilton, and Laurens of the Light Infantry Division of Major-General Marquis de Lafayette, under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Hamilton, with unloaded muskets and fixed bayonets, scaled the parapets and gallantly captured Redoubt No. 10, which formed the extreme left outlying defense of the British, and so hastened the surrender of Yorktown in the last fighting of the troops of Gen. George Washington.

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