British Surrender At Yorktown Metal Print

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In March 1781, Britain's Cornwallis moved into Virginia, where his troops all but captured Thomas Jefferson and the Virginia legislature. Confident of delivering the mortal blow to the American cause, Cornwallis retired to the Yorktown Peninsula with 7,000 troops to await reinforcements from the triumphant British fleet. But things did not work out that way. In the nick of time, French Admiral DeGrasse sailed from the West Indies to Yorktown, where he soundly defeated a British relief expedition, and proceeded to bottle up Cornwallis. Washington, still smarting from the loss of New York City, seized the strategic opportunity. By forced march he reached Chesapeake Bay at Annapolis where DeGrasse's ships, with three thousand reinforcements, ferried him to Yorktown. By the beginning of September, with the arrival of further reinforcements under Lafayette, Washington commanded a vast army of 26,000 men, and moved in for the kill. Days of heavy bombardment shattered the defenses and the mor...