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The York garrison marched past at two o'clock, before the combined army, which was formed in two lines, the French facing the Americans and in full dress uniform.... Passing between the two armies, the English showed much disdain for the Americans, who so far as dress and appearances went represented the seamy side, many of those poor boys being garbed in linen _habits-vestes_, torn, soiled, a number among them almost shoeless. The English had given them the nickname of _Yanckey-Dudle_. What does it matter? the man of sense will think; they are the more to be praised and show the greater valor, fighting, as they do, so badly equipped. As a
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Rochambeau writes in his memoirs:
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This justice must be rendered to the Americans that they behaved with a zeal, a courage, an emulation which left them in no case behind, in all that part of the siege intrusted to them, in spite of their being unaccustomed to sieges.
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I shall never forget, says Closen,
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but also, being an abbé, the number of books scattered among the ruins, many being works of piety and theological controversy, and with them
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that stern essay, so popular then in America, in which society ladies were invited to fill their soul with those
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The English, writes Abbé Robin,
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Henry Lee (Light-horse Harry), who was present, describes in the same spirit the march past:
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Universal silence was observed amidst the vast concourse, and the utmost decency prevailed, exhibiting in demeanor an awful sense of the vicissitudes of human life, mingled with commiseration for the unhappy.
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Lord Cornwallis, writes Closen,
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[51] A friendly correspondence began between the English general and some of the French officers, Viscount de Noailles, the one who had walked all the way, lending him, the week after the capitulation, his copy of the beforementioned famous work of Count de Guibert on _Tactics_, which was at that time the talk of Europe, and of which Napoleon said later that