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The Yorktown Campaign and the surrender of Cornwallis, 1781. New York, Harper & Brothers. Patton, Jacob Harris (1882). Yorktown: a compendious account of the campaign of the allied French and American forces, resulting in the surrender of Cornwallis and the close of the American revolution;. New York, Fords, Howard, & Hulbert.
The French army left Newport in June, and joined Washington's army at Dobb's Ferry, New York on July 7. [78] From there, Washington and Rochambeau embarked on an inspection tour of the British defenses around New York while they awaited word from de Grasse. [79] De Grasse had a somewhat successful campaign in the West Indies.
The siege was a decisive Franco-American victory: after the surrender of British Lt. Gen. Charles, ... The Siege of Yorktown, 1781. New York, N.Y.: Savas Beatie.
The surrender of Lord Cornwallis, 19 October 1781, at Yorktown. The British fleet's arrival in New York set off a flurry of panic amongst the Loyalist population. [45] The news of the defeat was also not received well in London.
Clinton provided Cornwallis with a relatively modest force of British, German, and provincial (Loyalist) regiments—about 3,000 men—with which to accomplish all of this. [35] The forces he was given to accomplish this were limited by the necessity of keeping a large British force in New York under Clinton to shadow Washington.
A month before the British surrender at Yorktown ended major fighting during the American Revolution, the traitor Benedict Arnold led a force of Redcoats on a last raid in his home state of ...
The British surrender at Yorktown. General O'Hara represented the British at the surrender of Yorktown on 19 October 1781, as Cornwallis' adjutant, when the latter pleaded illness. He first attempted to surrender to French Comte de Rochambeau , who declined his sword and deferred to General George Washington .
Scott and I will discuss our findings and other issues about the surrender of York as part of the York County History Center-sponsored, activity-packed Civil War Day starting at 10 a.m., July 20 ...