Colonial National Historical Park - Yorktown Battlefield
A visit to the Yorktown Battlefield at Colonial National
Historical Park in Virginia ... where the decisive victory
by a combined force of 17,000 American Continental Army
troops led by General George Washington and French Army
troops led by the Comte de Rochambeau over 9,000 British
Army troops commanded by British Lieutenant General Charles
Cornwallis took place in the fall of 1781.
It was the last major land battle of the American
Revolutionary War, as the surrender by Cornwallis, and the
capture of both him and his British troops on October 19,
1781, prompted the British government to negotiate an end to
the conflict, resulting in the Treaty of Paris of 1783.
