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Campaign of 1781 Lafayette's Encampment OC22 |
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 Picture courtesy of John Musgrove.
On 13 August 1781, the Marquis de Lafayette encamped his army in King William County. He place his militia four miles east between the Pamunkey and Mattaponi Rivers and stationed his light infantry - commanded by Gen. John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg and Lt. Col. Christian Febiger - a mile south of here. From these positions Lafayette spied on the British army under Gen. Charles Cornwallis entrenching downriver at Yorktown, and prepared to block its escape routes. Early in September, Gen. George Washington and his army arrived from the north, accompanied by Rochambeau’s French forces, to join Lafayette and begin the siege of Yorktown.
Department of Historic Resources 1987
Routes 30 and 634 King William County Virginia.
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