Surrender at Yorktown

Name: Surrender at Yorktown
Start: 1781
Location: Yorktown, Virginia

1781 · Yorktown, Virginia · Americas · War

Americans and French force Cornwallis's army to surrender

Surrender at Yorktown — Wikimedia Commons

George Washington's army and Rochambeau's French corps besieged the British at Yorktown while de Grasse's fleet cut them off by sea. On 19 October 1781 General Cornwallis surrendered with some 8,000 soldiers and sailors; by the Treaty of Paris in 1783 Britain recognised American independence.

State: British Colonial Empire, British Empire

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