THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1775 1783
THE BATTLE OF YORKTOWN
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September 28, 1781
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August 6, 1777
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January 4, 1769
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March 30, 1780
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Detailed explanation-1: -Virginia | Sep 28-Oct 19, 1781. The Battle of Yorktown proved to be the decisive engagement of the American Revolution. The British surrender forecast the end of British rule in the colonies and the birth of a new nation-the United States of America.
Detailed explanation-2: -This year marked the beginning of government under the Articles of Confederation as well as the surrender of British armed forces in the American Revolution.
Detailed explanation-3: -Siege of Yorktown, (September 28–October 19, 1781), joint Franco-American land and sea campaign that entrapped a major British army on a peninsula at Yorktown, Virginia, and forced its surrender. The siege virtually ended military operations in the American Revolution.
Detailed explanation-4: -Surrender at Yorktown On October 19, 1781, British General Charles Cornwallis surrendered his army of some 8, 000 men to General George Washington at Yorktown, giving up any chance of winning the Revolutionary War.