On the fourteenth the French and Americans carried by storm two redoubts on the second parallel.

The redoubtable Tarleton was in Yorktown, and he says that day and night there was acute danger to any one showing himself and that every gun was dismounted as soon as seen.

He was for evacuating the place and marching away, whither he hardly knew.

Cornwallis still held Gloucester, on the opposite side of the York River, and he now planned to cross to that place with his best troops, leaving behind his sick and wounded.

He would try to reach Philadelphia by the route over which Washington had just ridden.