P332 - Plan of the siege of Yorktown in Virginia

Ewald's plan appears to be based on a plan of the same title published in London on March 1, 1787 and used by Tarleton in his History of the Campaigns of 1780 and 1781.  Ewald, however, extended his plan into Gloucester County and added his own remarks.  
     At bottom right on the Yorktown side are shown the headquarters of Washington and Rochambeau and the American artillery.  Above and to the left are French artillery, General Lincoln, General le Marquis de la Fayette, General Siwoens (Steuben), and Clinton.  To the left are the French regiments Saintonge, Soissen[nais], Deux-Ponts, and Bourbon[nais].  The remark at the center reads: "British redoubts occupied by the French."  At the top are shown the first and second parallels, "Moors" [Moore's] House, and American and French batteries.  At lower left are the French regiments Agénais, Gatinais, Touraine; the Volunteers of Saint-Simon; and a French battery.  Below Yorktown is the Fusiliers' Redoubt, "Which during the entire siege was maintained."  Also shown are the numbered regiments in Yorktown itself and the sunken ships Guadeloupe and Charon in the York River.
     On the Gloucester side, numbered redoubts are visible in the town itself: No. 1, Rangers; No. 2, Legion; No.3, 80th Regiment; No. 4, unassigned.  At the mouth of Sarah Creek Ewald noted, "Place where I stood when French fleet arrived before the mouth of the York River."  The area above the town is labeled "Mostly cut-down woods."  In front of the work on the road leading out of Gloucester are stationed French sentries.  Toward the bottom are "Infantry picket," "Cavalry picket," "Corps under General Choisy," and "Hussars."  At the left of the plan is "Sauls" [Seawell's] Plantation.  The headquarters are shown at Seawell's Ordinary.