Siege Of Yorktown

The Battle of Yorktown in 1781 was a very important and decisive victory  for the Americans who combined the assault with the french army led by General George Washington and Comte de Rochambeau. They fought against  a British Army commanded by Lieutenant General Lord Cornwallis. In 1780, 5,500 French soldiers landed in Rhode Island to assist their American allies, Washington and Rochambeau decided to ask de Grasse for help to stop the british from getting troops and supplies by sea.

The French and American armies got together  during the summer of 1781. When word of de Grasse's approval for help arrived, the American and French forces began moving south toward Virginia, De Grasse sailed from the West Indies and arrived at the Chesapeake Bay at the end of August, bringing additional troops and making a blockades at Yorktown. Cornwallis was surrounded and he sent sick men to the American lines trying to infect them and have a chance to escape, but it was in vain and he sent a soldier with a white flag indicating that Cornwallis was surrendering.