Redoubt No. 10 stood at the easternmost end of Cornwallis's outer defensive line at Yorktown — a small square earthwork about sixty feet on a side, held on the night of October 14, 1781 by a garrison of roughly seventy men drawn from the British 23rd Royal Welch Fusiliers and the 71st Highland Foot under Lieutenant Colonel Robert Lake. The walls rose six to eight feet above the ditch, faced with logs and gabions, fronted with sharpened palisades and an abatis of felled tree limbs. Together with Redoubt No. 9 — held by Hessian troops two hundred and fifty yards across the field — the two works blocked the Franco-American second parallel trench from closing on the inner defenses. Their capture that night by Hamilton's light infantry against Redoubt 10 and the French Royal Deux-Ponts grenadiers against Redoubt 9 shortened the siege by perhaps a week and made Cornwallis's surrender five days later inevitable. This W. Britain 11-piece straight section recreates the wall, firing step, palisade, and abatis of the redoubt's flank, completing the Redoubt No. 10 corner section to build the full enclosure diorama, with Alexander Hamilton himself leading the assault and the Continental Line in hunting-shirt charging figure storming the wall in the field-uniform of his light infantry.

Set Number: 17838 / W. Britain Scenic / 1/30 (60mm) scale / matte finish / 11-piece set / 8"L x 8"D x 3.5"H