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surveyed the grounds, & decided on the spot, rode to his tent, -- took a hasty meal, remounted with his staff, rode back to the ground where he found nothing done. In a voice unusually loud, he called to Col; Tierman, Chief Engineer, who rode up to him, startled & pale. "Did I not order the entrenchments to be begun here? Sir, if they are not begun in ten minutes, I shall know the reason why." In ten minutes there were two hundred men at work. 

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Washington at this moment was unusually excited He had to contend with England's greatest General, and he felt that it was the crisis of his Country's fate.

There are some persons yet living who remember when the news arrived at Philadelphia of the reduction of Yorktown. We were awakened, young and old, by our patriotic German Watchmen, echoing, from Square to Square, the triumphant note-- "O past twelve oclock and Cornwallis is taken." Sleep was soon banished from every eye, and with the City joyfully illuminated