An American history . nder the gallant young Mar-quis de Lafayette, Washingtonstrusted friend, and the most de-voted of the eleven foreign majorgenerals who served in theAmerican army. But the tables were turned onComwallis. While he was wait-ing in Yorktown, a French fleet Pf^ October 19, under De Grasse, arriving off 1781the mouth of Chesapeake Bay,defeated the British squadronwhich was bringing the rein-forcements from New York, andlanded 3000 French troops onthe peninsula in their stead. Atthe same moment Washington,always on the right spot at theright moment, conducted a bril-liant march
An American history . nder the gallant young Mar-quis de Lafayette, Washingtonstrusted friend, and the most de-voted of the eleven foreign majorgenerals who served in theAmerican army. But the tables were turned onComwallis. While he was wait-ing in Yorktown, a French fleet Pf^ October 19, under De Grasse, arriving off 1781the mouth of Chesapeake Bay,defeated the British squadronwhich was bringing the rein-forcements from New York, andlanded 3000 French troops onthe peninsula in their stead. Atthe same moment Washington,always on the right spot at theright moment, conducted a bril-liant march of three hundredmiles from the Hudson to theYork River, with 2000 Ameri-cans and 4000 Frenchmen, andeffecting a junction with Lafa-yette, penned Cornwallis up inthe narrow peninsula between theYork and the James. Cornwallismade a brave but vain effort tobreak the besieging lines. On thenineteenth of October, 1781, four 144 Separation of the Colonies from England 180. The warin the West 181. TheProclamationLine of 1763. years, almost to the day, after Burgoynes surrender at Sara-toga, Comwallis handed his sword to Washington and surren-dered his army of 7000 men and officers as prisoners of British attempt to conquer the revolting colonies was and south their armies had met • with disaster. Theyabandoned the posts which they still held, with the exceptionof New York, and withdrew tothe West Indies to triumph overFrance in a great naval battleand still preserve their ascend-ancy in that rich region of thewestern world. While the American army onthe Atlantic seaboard was suc-cessfully repelling the British in-vasion with the aid of the Frenchfleet, a bold campaign was beingconducted by the hardy fron-tiersmen of the west for the over-throw of Englands authoritybeyond the AUeghenies. In the very year that the British took possession of the vastterritory between the eastern mountains and the Mississippi,King George had issued a proclamation forbidding his govern
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