Callahan, Charles Hilliard, 1858-1944 · Washington : National Capital Press · leaf 201
n was accorded the honor, on the night of the6th of October, of opening the first parallel before Yorktown. By the8th the parallel was completed, the batteries in readiness, and GeneralWashington opened the siege by firing the first gun. We must not neglect to narrate an incident of… … WASHINGTON IN THE REVOLUTION. 123 cannonaded. Pointing to a large handsome house on a rising ground,which he designated as CornwaUis headquarters, he requested that itbe levelled. It proved to be his own.* He had previously pledgedand subsequently surrendered his entire fortune, amounting to over…
