October 11, 1781

Since the completion of the first set of trenches, a new set of trenches has been under construction, to bring the allied forces closer to the British positions. On the 11th the second set of parallel trenches is begun, now only 360 yards from the British fortifications. Soldiers guarded those doing the excavating, and they were ordered to niether sit or lie down. By morning, none of the american soldiers had been killed.

The British side, by contrast had received more than 3600 shots from cannons in a twenty-four hour period, some of the shot even landing in Gloucester, where it wounded soldiers on the beach. By this time the American soldiers were able to see the damage being inflicted with dead and wounded strewn about the town.