Host/POC: Gloucester Museum / Robert Kelly.  VASSAR POC: Thomas Nelson Jr Chapter VASSAR / Gary Hodges.
Location: Abingdon Park, 7087 Powhatan Dr., Hayes, VA.
Details:  Two plaques will be unveiled at the ceremony commemorating the Battle of the Hook.  The battle, fought on October 3^rd, 1781, was the largest cavalry action of the Revolutionary War, involving as many as 1,500 troops, half of them mounted.  The British cavalry, under the command of Lt Col Tarleton, was defeated in a cavalry charge led by the Duke de Lauzun. The British defeat closed the door for their forces at Yorktown to escape across the York River to Gloucester.  The British surrendered at Yorktown on October 19^th.

The American Society of Le Souvenir Français, Inc. will proudly unveil two interpretive markers telling the important story of Gloucester County’s 1781 Battle of the Hook. The largest cavalry battle of the American Revolution, the Battle of the Hook has often been overlooked, yet it is one of the most important episodes of the siege of Yorktown, when the Duc de Lauzun's famous Legion of hussars with 300 troops of the "Infanterie de Marine,” and Lieutenant Colonel John Mercer's Select Battalion of Grenadiers, under the overall command of Brigadier General Claude de Choisy, defeated Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton's British Legion and a detachment of the Royal Welch Fusiliers.

Please contact the Thomas Nelson Jr. Chapter for more information. 

- GHD