Battle of Yorktown

The Battle of Yorktown was fought in the year 1781 was a great victory by combined assault of American forces led by General George Washington and French forces and the british Army commanded by General Lord Cornwallis. it proved to be the last major land battle of the Revolutionary War, as the surrender of Cornwallis’s war then their success the British government to eventually negotiate an end all the trouble the tax without representation made.

In 1780, 5,500 French soldiers landed in Rhode Island to help their American allies in assaulting British by that time they were at New York City. the two armies met North of New York City in 1781. the French Commander, the Comte de Rochambeau, convinced the American Commander, George Washington, that an attack on New York City would be hard to acomplish and it but even though it will be more easy for the french to help by that sea, because he was to bring the French Fleet into the Caribbean in October. they agreed to attack Lord Cornwallis and his smaller army of 9,000 men which was stationed in the port of Yorktown, Virginia. in the beginning of The battle, french defeated a British Fleet at the Battle of the Chesapeake which had come to Cornwallis. as a the achivement of this victory, the french blocked any escape by sea for Cornwallis. Washing sent the Marquis de Lafayette(french)to make lord Cornwallis stay in Yorktown until he arrived, and Lafayette did so. by late Of that month the french and Other helpers surrounded Cornwallis by land.

After initial preparations, the Friends of the patriots built their first bomb thingy and began the bomb atack . with the British defense weakened, Washington, on October 14, sent two columns to attack the last major remaining British defenses. They took down many columnas wich protected the british making them vulnerable. with these defenses gone, the allies were able to finish their 2nd bonb location. with the Allied artillery closer and more intense than ever, the British situation began to destroy very rapidly and Cornwallis asked for capitulation terms on the 17th. after two days of negotiation, the surrender ceremony took place on the 19th, with Cornwallis being not theresince said he was to be ill. with the capture of over 8,000 British soldiers, negotiations between the United States and Great Britain began, that made in the Treaty of Paris in 1783.