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  • Yorktown campaign
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  • Yorktown campaign
skos:altLabel
  • Yorktown
  • Battle of Yorktown
  • Virginia campaign
  • Washington's army and the French army moved south to face Cornwallis
  • campaign of 1781
  • defence of Yorktown
  • its movements in Virginia
  • trap the British
clgo:combatant
  • *
  • Ansbach-Bayreuth
  • *Hesse-Cassel
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clgo:notes
  • Force strengths are maximums marshalled during and shortly after the siege of Yorktown.
clgo:place
clgo:result
  • Franco-Americanvictory
  • *End of large-scale combat in the war
  • *Start of peace negotiations
clgo:strength
  • American land forces: 5,500, sixty cannon
  • Clinton land forces: 7,000
  • Cornwallis land forces: 7,000
  • French land forces: 9,500, ninety cannon
  • French naval personnel: 20–22,000
  • French navy: 36 ships of the line
  • New York fleet: 25 ships of the line
  • Yorktown fleet: 63 small ships
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