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 ...

All remembered, all were celebrating, Oct. 19, 1781, the day on which Lord Cornwallis surrendered his sword to General George Washington and the American Revolution came to an end at Yorktown.

More than 5,000 white-coated French troops under the command of Comte de Rochambeau arrived in America in 1780, more than two ...

This is just as true as it was for America in 1781. America was a nation built by an alliance, and Yorktown was the moment that defined it. The Declaration of Independence, which was “submitted ...

“Not all that much is known about it, other than it was used to house troops and it was burned in 1781 by the English on their way to Yorktown,” he said. Years later, in a pension ...

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 ...

Following the defeat of the British at Yorktown in 1781, the most difficult issue to be resolved was the fate of the tens of thousands of African American slaves who had joined the British during ...

The siege of Yorktown began on Sept. 28, 1781, when Gen. George Washington’s troops and their French allies under Lt. Gen. Comte de Rochambeau cornered the British on the Virginia Peninsula.

Before overseeing the writing of the Constitution and defeating the English (with the help of the French) and cementing US independence at Yorktown, Virginia, in 1781, Washington had moved to his ...