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Yorktown Campaign 29 September - l9 October l78l

American Forces:

Commanding General: General George Washington

Secretary: Colonel J.Trumbull, Jr.

Aides de camp: Lt.Colonel T.Tilghman, D.Humphreys,D. Cobb,

W.S.Smith, & J. Laurens

Adjutant General: Brigadier General E.Hand

Quartermaster Gen: Colonel T. Pickering

Asst Qtrmstr Gen: Lt. Colonel H. Dearborn

Commissary General: Colonel E. Blaine

Chief Physician: Dr. J. Craik

Chief of Engineers: Brigadier General Chevalier Louis Du Portail

Superintendant of

Materials in the

Trenches: Colonel S. Elbert

Continentals:

Lafayette's Division, Light Infantry: Major General

Marquis de Lafayette

1st Brigade: Brigadier General P. Huhlenberg

1st Battalion: Col. J. Vose (250)

2nd Battalion: Maj. J.P.Wyllys (250)

3rd Battalion: Lt. Col. F. Barber (200)

2nd Brigade: Bvt. Brigadier General M. Hazen

1st Battalion: Lt. Col. E. Huntingdon (200)

2nd Battalion: Lt. Col. A. Hamilton (200)

3rd Battalion: Lt. Col. J. Laaurens (200)

4th Battalion: (Hazen's Canadian Regiment)

Lt. Col. E.Antrill (200)

Lincoln's Division: Major General B. Lincoln

Clinton's Brigade: Brigadier General J. Clinton

1st New York Regiment: Col. G. Van Schaick (325)

2nd New York Regiment: Col. P. Van Cortlandt (350)

Dayton's Brigade: Colonel E. Dayton

1st & 2nd New Jersey Regiments: Col. M. Ogden (600)

Rhode Island Regiment: Lt. Col. J. Olney (450)

Steuben's Division: Major General Baron Steuben

Wayne's Brigade: Brigadier General A. Wayne

1st Pennsylvania Battalion: Lt. Col. J.Harmar (275)

Virginia Battalion: Lt. Col. T. Gaskins (350)

Gist's Brigade: Brigadier General M. Gist

3rd Maryland Regiment: Lt. Col. P. Adams (550)

4th Maryland Regiment: Major A. Roxburg (450)

Sappers & Miners: Cpt. J. Gilliland & D. Buschnell (50)

Delaware Recruits: Cpt. W. McKennan (60)

Cavalry:

4th Dragoon Regiment: Colonel S. Moyland

(Armand's Legion) (100)

Artillery:

2nd New York & Connecticut Regiment: Col. J.Lamb (225)

Det/1st Regiment: Lt. Col. E. Carrington (25)

Det/4th Regiment: Cpts. P. Duffy, W. Ferguson & J. Smith

(60)

State Troops: General T. Nelson (Governor of Virginia)

Virginia State Regiment: Lt. Col. Dabney (200)

Virginia Militia: General T. Nelson

1st Brigade: Brigadier General G.Weedon (1,500)

2nd Brigade: Brigadier General R. Lawson (750)

3rd Brigade: Brigadier General E. Stevens (750)

Total American Forces 8,845

French Army:

Commanding officer: Lieutenant General Jean Baptiste Donatien de

Vimeur, Count de Rochambeau

Aides de camp: Count de Fersen

Marquis de Vauban

Marquis de Damas

Chevalier de Lameth

M. Duman

M. de Lauberiere

Baron Ludwig von Closen

Marechaux de camp: Major General Baron de Viomenil

Major General Marquis de St. Simon

Major General Chevalier de Chastellux

Major General Viscount de Viomenil

Brigadier General: M. de Choisy

Intendent: M. de Tarle

Quartermaster Gen: M. de Beville

Commissary General: Claude Blanchard

Medical Department: M. de Coste, Physician in chief

M. Robillard, Surgeon in chief

M. de Mars, Superitendent of hospitals

Engineers: Colonel Desandrouins

Lt. Colonel de Querenet

Major de Palys

9 line officers

Regular Army:

Brigade Bourbonnois:

Bourbonnois Infantry Regiment: Colonel Marquis de Laval(900)

Royal Deuxponts Infantry Regiment: Colonel Count de

Deuxponts (900)

Brigade Soissonois:

Soissonois Infantry Regiment: Colonel marquis de St. Maime

(900)

Saintonge Infantry Regiment: Colonel Marquis de Custine (900)

Brigbade Agenois:

Agenois Infantry Regiment: Colonel Marquis d'Audechamp (1,000)

Gatenois Infantry Regiment: Colonel Marquis de Rostaing (1,000)

Independent

Touraine Infantry Regiment: Colonel Viscount de Pondeus (1,000)

Cavalry:

Lauzun's Legion: Duke de Lauzun (600)

Artillery: Colonel Commandant d'Aboville (600)

Total French Army 7,800

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British:

Commanding Officer: Lieutenant General Charles Lord Cornwallis

Aides de camp: Lt. Colonel Lord Chewton

Major Alexander Ross

Major Charels Cochran

Deputy Adjutant Gen: Major John Despard

Commissary: Perkins

Deputy Quartermaster Gen: Major Richard England

Assist Dpt. Qmtr Gen: Cpt. Campbell, Vallancy, Lt. Oldfield,

& Ensign St. John

Majors of Brigade: E. Barbazon, Manley, J. Baillie, F. Richardson

Engineers: Lt. A. Sutherland, Haldane & Stratton

Regular Army:

Guards Brigade: Brigadier General C. O'Hara (467)

Light Infantry: Lt. Colonel R. Abercrombie (594)

Yorke's Brigade: Lt. Col. Yorke

l7th Foot Regiment: Lt. Col. H.Johnson (205)

23rd Foot Regiment: Cpt Apthorpe (205)

33rd Foot Regiment: Lt. Col. J. Yorke (225)

71st Foot Regiment: Lt. Col. D. MacPherson

Dundas's Brigade: Lt. Colonel Dundas

43rd Foot Regiment: Maj. G. Hewitt (307)

76th Foot Regiment: Major F. Needham (628)

80th Foot Regiment: Lt. Col. T. Dundas (588)

Germans:

Anspach Battalions (2): Oberst von Voit & von Seybothen (948)

Erbprinz Regiment (Hessian): Oberstlieutenant von Fuchs (425)

von Bose Regiment (Hessian): Major O'Reilly (271)

Hessian Jägers: Cpt. J. Ewald (68)

Royal Artillery: Cpt. G. Rochefort & Lt E. Fage (193)

Pioneers: (33)

Provincials:

North Carolina Volunteers: Lt. Col. J. Hamilnton (114)

Queen's Rangers (horse & foot): Lt. Col. Simcoe (248)

British Legion (horse & foot): Lt. Col. Tarleton (192)

Total British Forces 5,953

Lumpkin, H., From Savannah to Yorktown

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