While the French fleet commanded by Admiral Comte de Grasse blocked the Chesapeake and held the British fleet at bay, American and French troops trapped British forces at Yorktown in the fall of 1781.

Journal of Economics, Vol. 140, Issue. 3, p. 233. An accessible and authoritative account of the battle of Yorktown (1781), the last major battle in the American War of Independence, where an ...

With so many spots devoted to Colonial and Revolutionary history in the Williamsburg area, what makes Yorktown Battlefield so special? For starters, it's the site of the 1781 siege and surrender ...