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The siege of Yorktown was the last major land battle of the American Revolutionary War in North America, and led to the surrender of General Cornwallis.

21 сент. 2024 г. · Siege of Yorktown, (September 28–October 19, 1781), joint Franco-American land and sea campaign that entrapped a major British army on a peninsula at Yorktown, ...

26 февр. 2015 г. · The Americans and French marched from Williamsburg to Yorktown on September 28 and began digging a trench 800 yards from the British defense line to begin a ...

9 нояб. 2009 г. · The Battle of Yorktown (Sep 28, 1781 – Oct 19, 1781) was the final battle of the American Revolution, fought between Colonial troops and the ...

By the end of September, approximately 17,600 American and French soldiers had gathered in Williamsburg to attack the 8,300 British soldiers in Yorktown.

September 28, 1781 - Allied army leaves Williamsburg, marches to Yorktown, and begins to invest the British works.

24 авг. 2024 г. · The siege of 1781 destroyed so much of the town that, by the end of the Revolutionary War, the number of buildings had been reduced to fewer than 70.

In 1781, American and French troops laid siege to Yorktown, Virginia, a stronghold of the British Army.