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  2. Siege of Yorktown order of battle - Wikipedia

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    Cornwallis was eventually ordered by General Clinton to establish a fortified deep-water port at either Yorktown or Portsmouth. Cornwallis chose Yorktown, and began constructing fortifications there and Gloucester Point, just across the York River from Yorktown, in August 1781.

  3. Siege of Yorktown - Wikipedia

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    The siege of Yorktown was the last major land battle of the American Revolutionary War in North America, and led to the surrender of General Cornwallis and the capture of both him and his army. The Continental Army 's victory at Yorktown prompted the British government to negotiate an end to the conflict.

  4. Light Infantry Division at Yorktown (1781) - Wikipedia

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    With a commission dating to 1777, Captain Stephen Olney was the senior captain of Gimat's Battalion, and the Rhode Island Light Company led the van of Gimat's Battalion at Redoubt 10.) Barber's Battalion, Lieutenant Colonel Francis Barber ( 1st New Jersey Regiment ), light infantry companies of the 1st and 2nd New Hampshire Regiments, the ...

  5. Yorktown campaign - Wikipedia

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    By December 1780, the American Revolutionary War's North American theatres had reached a critical point. The Continental Army had suffered major defeats earlier in the year, with its southern armies either captured or dispersed in the loss of Charleston and the Battle of Camden in the south, while the armies of George Washington and the British commander-in-chief for North America, Sir Henry ...

  6. List of American Revolutionary War battles - Wikipedia

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    Battle of Trois-Rivières: June 8, 1776: Quebec: British victory: Patriots forced to evacuate Quebec [26] Battle of Sullivan's Island: June 28, 1776: South Carolina: Patriot victory: British attack on Charleston is repulsed [27] Battle of Turtle Gut Inlet: June 29, 1776: New Jersey: Patriot victory [28] Battle of Gwynn's Island: July 8–10 ...

  7. Southern theater of the American Revolutionary War - Wikipedia

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    Several American victories, such as the Battle of Ramseur's Mill, the Battle of Cowpens, and the Battle of Kings Mountain, also served to weaken the overall British military strength. The culminating engagement, the siege of Yorktown , ended with the surrender of British Lieutenant General Charles Cornwallis on October 19, 1781.

  8. Category:Battles of the Yorktown Campaign - Wikipedia

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  9. Yorktown Victory Monument - Wikipedia

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    1902 photomechanical print of the monument. The Yorktown Victory Monument is a monument erected in Colonial National Historical Park in Yorktown, Virginia, commemorating the 1781 victory at Yorktown and the alliance with France that brought about the end of the American Revolution and the resulting peace with England after the American Revolutionary War.