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Siege of Yorktown - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Siege of Yorktown or Battle of Yorktown in 1781 was a decisive victory by combined assault of American forces led by General George Washington and French forces led by General Comte de Rochamb...
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The Battle of Yorktown was fought between September 28 and October 19, 1781, after Gen. George Washington slipped away from New York and besieged Gen. Charles Cornwallis' army at Yorktown, VA. Supported by the French, Washington was able to compel the British to surrender after a brief siege. ... With the army assembled,
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Lafayette's army steadily increased. Early in August Cornwallis moved down the York River and occupied Yorktown, ... Leaving General Heath with four thousand men to guard the Hudson, they crossed that river with four thousand Frenchmen and two thousand Americans on the 19th of August. Moving down the Jersey shore,
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When word arrived, in May, that Admiral de Grasse and his formidable French fleet would be available to support operations in the South, Washington and the Comte Rochambeau agreed to march on Yorktown, Virginia where General Lord Charles Cornwallis and his army had fortified themselves.
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commanded by General Lord Cornwallis ... Ask a question about 'Siege of Yorktown' ... On September 26, transports with artillery, siege tools, and some French infantry and shock troops from the Head of Elk, the northern end of the Chesapeake Bay, arrived, giving Washington command of an army of 7,800 Frenchmen,
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THE BRITISH ARMY AT YORKTOWN ... He instructed Cornwallis to fortify Old Point Comfort as a naval station and occupy Yorktown also, if necessary. Cornwallis had Old Point Comfort examined for a naval station, but decided the channel was too wide to be commanded by his guns.
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LOUIS LE BEGUE DE PRESLE DUPORTAIL (1743-1802) was a skilled French engineer "loaned" to the Continental Army. Ne reached the rank of major general after Yorktown and is regarded as the father of the Corps of Engineers. ... Congress' hope that Frenchmen could successfully recruit in Canada, and Germans in the German...
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Dissension among the Americans was rife, the New Englanders refusing to support Schuyler, the aristocratic New Yorker who commanded the Northern Army, and openly intriguing to replace him with their own favorite, Maj.
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