Yorktown - An Overview
On 6 October, the trenches dug from the American sappers have been very long ample to the allies to open their first parallel. Amidst stormy nighttime darkness, the Americans dug the trench out with shovels and pickaxes, sooner or later setting up a four,000-foot-lengthy trench anchored by redoubts at Each individual close, that lay only 600 yards