A history of the United States . sely on the Brit-ish rear. On the 6th ofJuly a fight occurred atGreen Spring near Wil-liamsburg in which theAmerican advance was re-pulsed. Early in AugustCornwallis occupied York-town and ordered over tohis assistance the garrisonfrom Portsmouth, so thathis force numbered established him-self at Malvern Hill, keepinga close eye on Cornwallis. Washington was meanwhile watching the situation withintense interest, and when he learned the relative positionsWashington ^^ ^^^^ armies on the peninsula, he was quick tograsp the opportunity of crushing C
A history of the United States . sely on the Brit-ish rear. On the 6th ofJuly a fight occurred atGreen Spring near Wil-liamsburg in which theAmerican advance was re-pulsed. Early in AugustCornwallis occupied York-town and ordered over tohis assistance the garrisonfrom Portsmouth, so thathis force numbered established him-self at Malvern Hill, keepinga close eye on Cornwallis. Washington was meanwhile watching the situation withintense interest, and when he learned the relative positionsWashington ^^ ^^^^ armies on the peninsula, he was quick tograsp the opportunity of crushing Cornwallis withthe aid of the French navy and bringing the warto a close. On August 14, he received a messagefrom Count de Grasse, who had a powerful Frenchfleet in the West Indies, that he was just starting for Chesa-peake Bay. Washington and Rochambeau had been urgingthis for some time. Rochambeaus army had already joinedWashington on the Hudson. Sir Henry Clinton was expect-ing an attack on New York, so that Washington and Ro-. Marquis de Lafayette. andRochambeaujoin Lafayette inVirginia The War in the South 169 chambeau got their troops half through New Jersey before hissuspicions were aroused as to their real object. GeneralHeath remained at West Point with 4000 men. Washington took south with him 2000 Continentals and4000 Frenchmen. By the 5th of September they reachedthe head of Chesapeake Bay and from that point ,1 Surrender of they were comwaiiis conveyed at Yorktown, in ships %%f>^^^^to York-town, where theyarrived on the September 31the French squad-ron arrived on thescene and the siegeof Yorktown the 14th of Octo-ber Alexander Ham-ilton with a partof Muhlenbergsbrigade, and theBaron de Viomenil,stormed and carriedtwo of the British redoubts. On the 17th Cornwallis askedfor terms of surrender and the formal surrender took placeOctober 19, 1781. General Lincoln, who was in commandof the American army at the fall of Charleston, was desig-nated by Was
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