Capture of Redoubt No. 10

<br><center>On this line at the<br>Siege of Yorktown<br>on October 14, 1781, at night<br>the Battalions of<br>Gimat, Hamilton and Laurens<br>of the Light Infantry Division of<br>Major-General Marquis de Lafayette, <br>under the command of<br>Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Hamilton<br>with unloaded muskets and fixed bayonets, scaled the parapets and gallantly captured Redoubt No 10 which formed the extreme left outlying defense of the British and so hastened the surrender of Yorktown in<br>the last fighting of<br>the troops of<br>Gen. George Washington.<br>----------<br></center>