Battle+of+Yorktown

The Battle of Yorktown also known as The Seige of Yorktown was from September 28th to October 19th. Yorktown was the last major land battle of the Americaan Revolution. The battle was between the Americans led by General George Washington and the French led by Lieutenant General de Rochambeau versus the British led by General Lord Charles Cornwallis. The British wore red coats with headgear of bearskin caps. The French wore white uniforms and the American Continental Army wore blue uniforms while the militia were in rough clothing. Washington began his march to Yorktown witn the French on august 19th and arrived in Williamsburg, Virginia on Septeber 14th. The Americans and French had forced General Cornwallis to surrender thus the Americans and French were victorious. Lieutenant General de Rochambeau's fleet made a blockade on the Chesapeake Bay not allowing the British fleet to enter the bay and rescue the British troops. General Cornwallis refused to meet formaly with Washington and to come to the ceremony of surrender, he claimed illness.

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, on September 26th, which gave Washington command of 7,800 Frenchmen, 3,100 Militia, and 8,000 Continentals. On September 28th washington moved his army out of Williamsburg to surroud Yorktown. Cornwallis had a chain of several redoubts and batteries linked aloung the York river at Gloucester Point. On September 29th Washington moved the army even closer to Yorktown and British gunners opened up on the infantry. American riflemen and the Hessian Jaegers was exchanged fire throughout the day but there were few casulties. Cornwallis pulled most of his outer defences back. The Americans and the French occupied the abandoned defences and established their own batties there.

General Washington was Commander and Chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolution. Without Washington the revolution wouldnt have been what it was and The United States probably would have lost the war.
 * __General George Washington__**

Cornwallis came to the United States at the rank of Major general. By the end of the revolution he was incharge of all the British forces in the south. At first Cornwallis was very successful against the American forces. That all began to change in January, 1781 when he was defeated by Nathaniel greene's army in South Carolina. He was defeated at the battle of Yorktown by The Continental Army commanded by General George Washington. After the War Cornwallis became governor general of india and the Viceroy of Ireland. He died in 1805.
 * __General Lord Cornwallis__**