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    The siege of Yorktown, also known as the Battle of Yorktown and the surrender at Yorktown, began September 28, 1781, and ended on October 19, 1781, at...
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    The Battle of Yorktown or siege of Yorktown was fought from April 5 to May 4, 1862, as part of the Peninsula Campaign of the American Civil War. Marching...
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  • York, within Yorktown Yorktown, Texas Yorktown, Virginia Siege of Yorktown (1781), during the American Revolutionary War Siege of Yorktown (1862), during...
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    The siege of Yorktown was the culminating act of the Yorktown campaign, a series of military operations occupying much of 1781 during the American Revolutionary...
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    military supplies. Spain provided financing for the final siege of Yorktown in 1781 with a collection of gold and silver in Havana, then Spanish Cuba. Spain...
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    Peninsula campaign (category Campaigns of the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War)
    prepare for a siege of Yorktown. Just before the siege preparations had been completed, the Confederates, now under the direct command of Johnston, began...
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    Franco-American victory at siege of Yorktown in 1781 during the American Revolutionary War. He was commander-in-chief of the Expédition Particulière...
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    Revolutionary War, it was the site of negotiations for British General Charles Cornwallis's surrender at the Siege of Yorktown. The house was erected around...
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    surrender of British Lieutenant General Charles, Earl Cornwallis at Yorktown, Virginia, on October 19, 1781, ending the Siege of Yorktown, which virtually...
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    ultimately permitted to command Continental Army troops in the decisive Siege of Yorktown in 1781, the Revolutionary War's final major battle that secured American...
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    arrive and to join Washington in Virginia at the siege of Yorktown. He was given command of a battalion of light infantry on October 1, 1781, when its commander...
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    Charles O'Hara (category British Army personnel of the American Revolutionary War)
    Guilford Courthouse. He offered the British surrender during the siege of Yorktown on behalf of his superior Charles Cornwallis and is depicted in the eponymous...
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    Netherlands. During the Crimean War, in anticipation of the siege of Sevastopol, the Russians scuttled ships of the Black Sea Fleet to protect the harbour, to...
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    François Joseph Paul de Grasse (category Counts of France)
    directly led to the Franco-American victory at the siege of Yorktown and helped secure the independence of the United States. After this action, de Grasse...
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    2nd Canadian Regiment (category Military units and formations of the Continental Army)
    Brandywine, Germantown and the Siege of Yorktown. Most of its non-combat time was spent in and around New York City as part of the forces monitoring the British...
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    "St. George Tucker's Journal of the Siege of Yorktown, 1781". The William and Mary Quarterly. 5 (3). Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture:...
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    Virginia in the American Revolution (category History of Virginia)
    government and culminates with the defeat of General Cornwallis by the allied forces at the Siege of Yorktown in 1781, an event that signaled the effective...
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     166. Allison & Ferreiro 2018, p. 221: These, not the siege of Yorktown were the last engagements of the American Revolution Clowes, William Laird (1898)...
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    Alexander Scammell (category Adjutants general of the United States Army)
    ranking American officer killed during the Siege of Yorktown. Scammell was born March 22, 1747, in the part of Mendon, Massachusetts, which eventually became...
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    Jean François Hamtramck (category American people of the Northwest Indian War)
    Revolution, he participated in the Invasion of Quebec, the Sullivan Expedition, and the Siege of Yorktown. In the history of United States expansion into the Northwest...
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    Continental Army (category 18th-century history of the United States Army)
    realizing it. This resulted in the capture of the main British invasion force in the south at the Siege of Yorktown, which resulted in the American and their...
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    victory at the climactic Siege of Yorktown. After the Revolutionary War, Hamilton served as a delegate from New York to the Congress of the Confederation in...
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    James Armistead Lafayette (category People of Virginia in the American Revolution)
    activities of Benedict Arnold after he had defected to the British, and of Lord Charles Cornwallis during the run-up to the siege of Yorktown. He fed the...
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    Virginia Capes (category Headlands of Virginia)
    most notably in the naval Battle of the Chesapeake that was crucial to the American victory at the siege of Yorktown, effectively ending the American...
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    surrender at the Siege of Yorktown. Washington said, "The same Honors will be granted to the Surrendering Army as were granted to the Garrison of Charles Town...
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    Virginia at the Battle of the Chesapeake, then offloaded 3,000 troops and siege cannon to support Washington's siege of Yorktown. Governor Bernardo de...
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    Expédition Particulière (category Military operations of the American Revolutionary War)
    fleet of Admiral François de Grasse in trapping British Lieutenant-General Charles Cornwallis's army at Yorktown; the subsequent Franco-American siege ended...
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  • 1781 Siege of Yorktown. "Dudley Digges House, circa 1760". The Historical Marker Database. Retrieved November 2, 2024. "Historic Resources Survey of York...
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    Battle of the Chesapeake and the Newport fleet delivered the French siege train to complete the allied military arrival. The Siege of Yorktown and following...
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    for the republic's reunion. When the British surrendered at the Siege of Yorktown in 1781, however, American independence became apparent. Vermont, later...
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