Yorktown,+VA

Yorktown,VA By:Keon Waters

 The battle was fought in October of 1781. It was fought between the redcoats and the 13 colonies. The leaders of each army was George Washington and General Charles Earl Cornwallis. The first to reach Yorktown was General Cornwallis because he had tried to take the other southern states but failed and 2 months later he had met up with General Henry Clinton to get his army healed. Then General Cornwallis had arrived in Petersburg, Virginia in 1781 and then with an army that only had 1500 men to an army with 7000 men. General Cornwallis had gotten to Yorktown by finding a fort not being guarded do he attacked and won and took over the fort. Then on August 14 1781 George Washington had gotten word from French Admiral de Grasse that  reinforcements were on there way in mid-September. Then while waiting for reinforcements to get there Washington and French general de Rochambeau had both started <span style="color: rgb(209, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(10, 10, 10);">marching <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">from Rhode Island to Virginia. Then on there way to Virginia they had been stopped in New York but managed to escape without General Clinton noticing them. Then French Admiral de Grasse had arrived in the Chesapeake Bay without General Clinton noticing them also. Then Washington and Rochambeau had started up marching again because Gen. Cornwallis had been cut off by support and escape from sea. Later, Washington and Rochambeau had got to Yorktown on <span style="color: rgb(242, 2, 2);">September 28, 1781 and they didn't start building trenches till October 6th, by then Gen. Cornwallis had no idea what was happening. Then on October 9th Gen. Washington and his French allies had started attacking the fort. Gen. Cornwallis couldn't withstand the attack from Washington so he tried to wait for reinforcements from Gen. Henry Clinton but they couldn't get there in time so on <span style="color: rgb(222, 2, 2);">October 19th, 1781 Gen. Cornwallis had called for surrender after he had ran out of food and the French had them blocked by sea. Eventually, Gen. Cornwallis had given up and went back to Britain. This was the battle of Yorktown.