Redoubt No. 10 was the more easterly of the two British strongpoints that stood between Washington's siege lines and the inner defenses of Yorktown in October 1781. On the night of October 14, in a coordinated assault with the French attack on the adjacent Redoubt No. 9, Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Hamilton led the storming party of 400 Continental light infantry against this work — bayonets fixed and muskets deliberately unloaded so an accidental discharge could not betray their approach across the open ground. The fight lasted ten minutes. The Americans lost nine dead and about twenty-five wounded; the British garrison was overrun and the redoubt taken with cold steel. With both forward redoubts in French and American hands, Cornwallis's defensive perimeter collapsed inward, and within five days he was negotiating the surrender that ended the war. This W. Britain corner section of the redoubt — with its earthwork wall and sharpened storming stakes projecting outward at the base — pairs naturally with Alexander Hamilton himself, the man who led the assault, the French Royal Deux-Ponts officer whose regiment took the sister Redoubt No. 9 across the field that same night, and the Tradition of London American Generals set with Washington at the center of the headquarters that ordered the coordinated attack.

Set Number: 17752 / W. Britain Scenic / 1/30 (60mm) scale / matte finish / 1-piece set / 8"L x 8"D x 3.5"H