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.

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The latest Museum of Culpeper History marker documents Marquis de Lafayette’s march through Culpeper during the war with ...

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 ...

It was at Yorktown that inspiration for this column occurred ... Without the means of escape, Cornwallis surrendered in 1781.

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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.

An 1840 canvas painted by Eugene Louis Lami depicting American forces led by the Marquis de Lafayette during the 1781 Battle of Yorktown. Courtesy of the Library of Virginia The following day ...

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 ...

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.