28 September 1781 · North America
Siege of Yorktown
In autumn 1781, American and French troops under George Washington and the Comte de Rochambeau enclosed a British army under Cornwallis at Yorktown, Virginia, while a French fleet held the Chesapeake. The siege is the closing land campaign of the American Revolutionary War.
Commanders
- George Washington · General
- Date
- 28 September 1781
- Place
- Yorktown · United States
- Region
- North America