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	Battle of yorktown - Yorktown, Battle of. The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy
		Battle of Yorktown (1862) Battle of Yorktown 1862 Part of the American Civil War Pursuit of the flying rebels from Yorktown Sunday morning.
		The Battle of Yorktown began after the Battle of Guilford Court House on March 15, 1781.
		The Battle of Yorktown was a battle fought during the American Revolution.
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	The Final Battle - Yorktown 1781
		Battles were won and lost on both sides.
		The commanders of the army were thousands of miles from the battle.
		Yorktown was on the York River near the very important Chesapeake Bay.
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	Colonial National Historical Park (U.S. National Park Service)
		It began on the swampy marshes of Jamestown in 1607.
		It ended on the battle scarred landscape of Yorktown in 1781.
		On July 6, 1781, near Jamestown, the Marquise de Lafayette’s small American force fought General Cornwallis’s army at the Battle of Green Spring.
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	1781: the Battle of Yorktown
		Afterward the whole of the allies were carried by water to the James River by transports from the squadron of De Barras.
		From Baltimore, where he arrived on the 8th of September, 1781, Washington, accompanied by Rochambeau and the Marquis de Chastellux, journeyed to his home at Mount Vernon, from which he had been absent since July, 1775.
		If you cannot relieve me very soon, you must be prepared to hear the worst." On the same day a council of Clinton's officers in New York decided that Cornwallis must be relieved "before the end of October"-- and so he was, but not by their aid.
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	The Battle of Yorktown
		After the British loss in the Battle of the Chesapeake Capes (Second), he French naval fleet blocked England's access to the Chesapeake Bay and the American-French land forces blocked a move inland.
		Yorktown rests on the northern border of a large peninsula formed by the James River on the south and the York River on the north.
		The Battle of Yorktown was the last major engagement of the war.
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	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for 1781
		1781, the closing military operations of the American Revolution.
		in U.S. history, ratified in 1781 and superseded by the Constitution of the United States in 1789.
		The imperative need for unity among the new states created by the American Revolution and the necessity of defining the relative powers of the Continental Congress and the individual states led...
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	The Patriot Resource - American Revolution Book Arrivals: Battle of Yorktown, 1781
		Yorktown (1781), where a British Army, commanded by Lord Cornwallis, surrendered to the American forces under George Washington and their French allies, has generally been considered one of the decisive battles of the American War of Independence.
		It shows that the battle was really a siege, that it involved relatively few numbers, and relatively little fighting, and was not immediately seen as decisive, with the war continuing for a further two years.
		It sets the battle and campaign in the wider context of a war which included action in the West Indies, Europe, Africa, Asia, and at sea; shows how movements of the French and British navies were a crucial factor; and, overall, reassesses the causes and significance of the battle.
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	Chester and Mendham Soldiers who were Killed (Site not responding. Last check: )
		This Chester resident was killed at the Battle of Winchester in 1864.
		This Mendham resident was killed at the Battle of Fredericksburg in Virginia in December of 1862.
		Chester resident was killed at the Battle of the Argonne Forest in 1918.
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	ABC News: Celebration Marks 1781 Yorktown Battle
		YORKTOWN, Va. Oct 20, 2006 (AP)— French and Americans marched together to mark their shared victory over the British 225 years ago, but France's defense minister told the crowd that the countries' bond must be one of mutual respect.
		Friendship means "to talk to one another quite candidly" and to listen to one another with "no attempt to dominate," French Defense Minister Michele Alliot-Marie told the crowd that gathered Thursday to commemorate the Battle of Yorktown's 225th anniversary.
		Alliot-Marie spoke Thursday of the "pact of friendship sealed in Yorktown" that continues to bind the United States and France.
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	Battle Yorktown
		Revolutionary War: Battle of Yorktown After many years of fighting and battles, the final battle, the Battle of Yorktown was the climax of the Revolutionary War...
		The defeat of the British at the Battle of Yorktown by the patriots and the French signified the end of the war.
		This Imperial revolution was an intense battle that began in the ports of Boston and ended in the fields of Yorktown.
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	Battle Of Yorktown
		Yorktown, Virginia founded in 1691, was a busy 18th-century tobacco port but the town is best remembered as the site of the Battle of Yorktown, which effectively ended the Revolutionary War.
		In the late summer of 1781 when George Washington and Rochambeau heard of Lord Cornwallis' encampment in Yorktown they raced southward from New York to link up with the French fleet under Admiral Comte de Grasse in Chesapeake Bay.
		Nelson a signer of the Declaration of Independence was also engaged in the final siege of Yorktown. Nelson being a true patriot, urged General Washington to fire on his own home, the Nelson House, where Cornwallis had his headquarters.
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	The American Revolution - The Making of America and Her Independence
		The Battle of Yorktown began after the Battle of Guilford Court House.
		The surrender of Yorktown ended the fighting in the War for American Independence, except for some minor fighting that continued in the south, and other battles that still went on overseas.
		The Battle of Yorktown, is recognized as one of the most skillful military actions in history.
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	Yorktown Campaign (1781)
		It was a tribute to their individual characters and professionalism that the complexities of such operations succeeded, given that neither of the army commanders spoke the language of the other.
		In late April 1781, the British commander in the South, Cornwallis, decided to initiate an offensive in Virginia in hope of resolving the stalemated British campaign to conquer the Carolinas.
		The remarkably swift execution by the joint and combined military Franco-American forces, leading to the 1781 Yorktown victory has been difficult for some to accept as the result of evolving circumstances which were exploited by the exemplary, rapid decisions of the various allied commanders.
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	Yorktown Report
		The Battle of Yorktown, which was fought in October, 1781, illustrated the strength of the British Army.
		First of all the British had a third of their troops killed and many more injured by the Americans when they entered North Carolina, prior to the Battle of Yorktown; therefore the British did not have a full contingent of soldiers available for the battle.
		This was the decisive factor in the battle of Yorktown.
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	The British Surrender at Yorktown, 1781
		In the summer of 1781, after six years of war, the American Army was struggling.
		As the combined American and French armies marched south, a battle between the French and British fleets in the Chesapeake Bay sealed the fate of General Cornwallis and his British troops at Yorktown.
		In the period from September 5 - 9, the French surprised the British fleet at the mouth of the Chesapeake forcing the British navy to retreat to New York, leaving General Cornwallis stranded.
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	Battle of yorktown - Battle of Yorktown - 225th Anniversary
		Blackwell: The Battle of Yorktown: The Story of the Climactic Battle of the American Revolution, Fleming, Thomas, ibooks.
		Remarks at the Bicentennial Observance of the Battle of Yorktown
		Battle of Yorktown - Hamilton achieved his dream for glory when he led a charge of 400 men against the British at the Battle of Yorktown in 1881.
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	LIBERTY! . Chronicle of the Revolution . Yorktown 1781 \| PBS
		In a stunning reversal of fortune that may signal the end of fighting in the American colonies, Charles Lord Cornwallis today signed orders surrendering his British Army to a combined French and American force outside the Virginia tobacco port of Yorktown.
		On shore, the incessant shelling of the French and American guns made life miserable for the British troops.
		When a British officer finally appeared with a white flag on the parapet surrounding Yorktown, the French and American guns fell quiet.
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	"Laying Close Siege to the Enemy": Joseph Plumb Martin at the Battle of Yorktown, 1781
		In the war for independence, the life of a common soldier was a rough one.
		In this excerpt, Plumb described the British surrender at Yorktown in October 1781.
		I doubt not but their wish was not to have so many of us come at once as their accommodations were rather scanty.
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	Battle Of Yorktown
		Yorktown, Virginia founded in 1691, was a busy 18th-century tobacco port but the town is best remembered as the site of the Battle of Yorktown, which effectively ended the Revolutionary War.
		In the late summer of 1781 when George Washington and Rochambeau heard of Lord Cornwallis' encampment in Yorktown they raced southward from New York to link up with the French fleet under Admiral Comte de Grasse in Chesapeake Bay.
		Nelson a signer of the Declaration of Independence was also engaged in the final siege of Yorktown. Nelson being a true patriot, urged General Washington to fire on his own home, the Nelson House, where Cornwallis had his headquarters.
	www.marquisdelafayette.net /battleofyorktown.com (1080 words)

	Battle of Yorktown
		The Battle of Yorktown, although it did not end the war, was the last major battle of the war.
		Battle of Yorktown - Surrender of General Cornwallis
		By the summer of 1781, the American troops managed to force Corwallis and his army to Yorktown, Virginia.
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	Glimpses of Historical Areas East of the Mississippi River
		Here in the summer of 1781 they fortified Yorktown as a naval station for the British fleet in southern waters and as a military base for further operations in the interior.
		The siege of Yorktown was primarily an artillery duel conducted according to orthodox eighteenth century tactics under the direction of Baron von Steuben, a veteran of the wars of Frederick the Great, who had come from Prussia to assist the Americans in their struggle for independence.
		A British battle fleet which had hoped to come to the assistance of Cornwallis had been beaten off by the French early in the siege.
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	The Battle of Yorktown (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Battle of Yorktown was the climax of the Revolutionary War.
		On September 28, 1781, Washington and Rochambeau, along with Lafayette's troops and 3,000 of de Grasse's men, arrived at Yorktown.
		His successors decided that it was no longer in Britain's best interest to continue the war, and by November of 1782, the Treaty of Paris, in which Britain recognized the United States and promised to remove all its troops from the country, had been written.
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	1781 1782 - John Laurens
		John was sent to Paris by George Washington in March of 1781 and gained French assurances that their navy would support American operations in that year.
		He also arranged a loan and supplies from the Netherlands, before returning home in May. Laurens persistence to the King of France and his unbridled audacity in insisting for French aid is the only reason monies were received from France.
		At the Battle of Chehaw Neck near the Combahee River, he was shot from the saddle and died on August 27, 1782.
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	YORKTOWN MAP - Archiving Early America
		The successful outcome of the Yorktown campaign, led by Gen. Washington and French Gen. Rochambeau, marked the end of the Revolutionary War, thus winning independence for the 13 colonies.
		It also established Yorktown's place in history as the site of Gen. Cornwallis' surrender of his troops to the Allied forces.
		It is clear that without the support of the French land and sea forces the victory at Yorktown would not have been possible.
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	Battle of Saratoga, Battle of Yorktown, Daniel Shays, Judith Murray from list 05 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Battle of Saratoga - (1777), campaign that helped decide the outcome of the American Revolution.
		Battle of Yorktown - 1781, the closing military operations of the American Revolution.
		On Oct. 17, 1781, he asked for surrender terms, which he accepted Oct. 19, 1781.
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	The American Revolution (Eutaw Springs)
		On March 15, 1781, he had held the field at the Battle of Guilford Courthouse, North Carolina against Greene, but suffered huge losses.
		On August 14, 1781, General George Washington finally received word from French Admiral de Grasse that the long awaited French fleet would arrive in mid-September.
		The bombardment of the fort at Yorktown began on October 9, 1781.
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	The Battle of Yorktown
		With the arrival of the French fleet of Admiral De Grasse, General Washington was able to march south from New York with the joint American and French army to attack Cornwallis.
		The Americans and French marched out of Williamsburg and arrived before Yorktown on 28th September 1781, forming a semi-circle around the entrenchments and putting the British under siege.
		The Americans began formal siege operations on the eastern side of Yorktown on 30th September and on 9th October were sufficiently close to began an artillery bombardment.
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	Embassy of the United States, Paris, France
		The Battle of Yorktown in 1781, which led to Britain's surrender and American victory in the struggle for independence, brought together the great figures of the war, both American and French -- Generals Washington, Lafayette, Rochambeau and Admiral de Grasse.
		Victory at Yorktown was the result of American and French land and sea forces working together to execute a well-conceived plan to trap and force the surrender of the British.
		Today we remember and celebrate victory at the Battle of Yorktown, one of the earliest and most enduring symbols of Franco-American friendship and military cooperation.
	www.amb-usa.fr /archives/leach/2004/101504.htm (413 words)

	United States Historical Maps - Perry-Castañeda Map Collection - UT Library Online
		Inset: The Battle of Brandywine 11 September 1777
		Map shows: "Battle Fields", "Chesapeake & Ohio R.R. after the war", "Other railroads after the war", "Railroads during the war", "Plank roads and turnpikes", "Other roads", "Light houses", rivers, towns, and relief by hachures.
		Verso: List of "Battle Fields of Virginia" with dates of actions.
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