Campaign of 1781
About one mile south Lafayette placed in camp his Light Infantry consisting of Muhlenberg's and Febiger's commands, August 13, 1781. The troops had just been brought across the Pamunkey at Ruffin's Ferry, from New Castle, to observe Cornwallis, then entrenching at Yorktown. Within six weeks the Yorktown Campaign, in which these troops took part, opened.
1948 text, presented as a historical document.
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Marker data: Virginia Department of Conservation and Development, State Historical Markers of Virginia, 6th ed. (1948)
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