21 сент. 2024 г. · The American commander in chief, General George Washington, ordered Lafayette to block Cornwallis's possible escape from Yorktown by land.

Gen. George B. McClellan decided instead to besiege the Rebel lines. He ordered gun emplacements built between the James and York Rivers outside of Yorktown and ...

Lieutenant-General de Rochambeau commanded the French troops. Major-General Lord Cornwallis commanded the British and German troops. Size of the armies at the ...

9 нояб. 2009 г. · When British General Lord Charles Cornwallis and his army surrendered to General George Washington's American force and its French allies at ...

Washington's forces defeated Lord Charles Cornwallis' veteran army dug in at Yorktown, Virginia. Victory at Yorktown led directly to the peace negotiations.

Commander Lt. Gen. Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau · Commander of Artillery, Lt. Col. François Marie d'Aboville · Maj. Gen. Charles Gabriel, ...

26 февр. 2015 г. · American Units and Commanders: Commander-in-Chief: General George Washington, Inspector General: Baron von Steuben, Adjutant General: Brigadier General Edward ...

Lafayette fixed Cornwallis in place while de Grasse kept control of Chesapeake Bay, preventing British naval assistance through his victory at the Battle of the ...

With his back to the York River, British General Charles Lord Cornwallis intended to resupply and refit his 9,000 man army in the fall of 1781.