Yorktown Campaign

Yorktown campaign

Surrender of Lord Cornwallis
by John Trumbull, depicting the British surrendering to French (left) and American (right) troops.
Oil on canvas, 1820.

Date	June – October, 1781
Location	Primarily Virginia
Result	Decisive Franco-American victory

Belligerents

United States

France

Great Britain

Commanders and leaders

George Washington
Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, Comte de Rochambeau
François Joseph Paul, Comte de Grasse
Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette
Anthony Wayne
Charles René Dominique Sochet, Chevalier Destouches
Jacques-Melchior, Comte de Barras Saint-Laurent

Claude-Anne-Montbleru, Marquis de St. Simon

Sir Henry Clinton
Charles Cornwallis (POW)
Benedict Arnold
William Phillips
August von Voigt (POW)
Marriot Arbuthnot
Sir Thomas Graves

Thomas Symonds (POW)

Strength

American land forces: 5,500, sixty cannon
French land forces: 9,500, ninety cannon
French navy: 36 ships of the line

French naval personnel: 20–22,000

Cornwallis land forces: 7,000
Clinton land forces: 7,000
New York fleet: 25 ships of the line

Yorktown fleet: 63 small ships

Force strengths are maximums marshalled during and shortly after the siege of Yorktown.

Great Britain

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