Siege of Yorktown

The Surrender of Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown, 19 October 1781; 1787—c. 1828

The Surrender of Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown by John Trumbull, 1797

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MAPS OF THE BATTLE

The Yorktown Campaign, Washington’s March and Naval Actions, 20-Aug—26-Sep-1781

The Yorktown Campaign, the Siege, 6—20-Oct-1781

Maps courtesy of the Department of History,
United States Military Academy

LINKS

All Battle Maps
SITE: The History Department at the United States Military Academy

Portrait to come. See entry in Wikipedia.

Associated with

Cornwallis, Charles

Grasse, comte de

Hamilton, Alexander

Lafayette, Marquis de

Laurens, John

O’Hara, Charles

Washington, George

One of the most stubborn myths of American history is the idea that the frontier promoted equality of material condition. This national folk legend is, unhappily, ver much mistaken. With some exceptions, landed wealth was always highly concentrated throughout the southern highlands, as it would be in the lower Mississippi Valley, Texas and the far southwest. Inequality was greater in the backcountry and the southern highlands than in any other rural region of the United States.

— David Hackett Fischer

Albion′s Seed: Four British Folkways in America (1989)