![]() ![]() It was a decisive victory by a combined force of the American Continental Army troops led by General George Washington with support from Marquis de Lafayette and French Army troops led by Comte de Rochambeau and a French naval force commanded by Comte de Grasse over the British Army commanded by British Lieutenant General Charles Cornwallis. ![]() The siege of Yorktown, also known as the Battle of Yorktown, the surrender at Yorktown, or the German battle because of the presence of Germans in all three armies, began Septemand ended on October 19, 1781, at exactly 10:30 am in Yorktown, Virginia. Washington–Rochambeau Revolutionary Route. ![]()
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