Essentials of United States history . d Pennsylvania, and had almost reached Delawarebefore Clinton suspected his intentions. Meanwhile CountRochambeau (ro-shon-bo), who had been at Newport witha French army of several thousand men, had moved hisentire force to New York, and, having joined Washingtonsarmy in New Jersey, marched with it to Virginia. Thisrapid march from New York to the Virginia peninsula wasa bold and difficult maneuver. 180. At Yorktown. — By the middle of September Wash-ington and Rocham-beau had reachedLafayettes headquar-ters at the end of themonth the c
Essentials of United States history . d Pennsylvania, and had almost reached Delawarebefore Clinton suspected his intentions. Meanwhile CountRochambeau (ro-shon-bo), who had been at Newport witha French army of several thousand men, had moved hisentire force to New York, and, having joined Washingtonsarmy in New Jersey, marched with it to Virginia. Thisrapid march from New York to the Virginia peninsula wasa bold and difficult maneuver. 180. At Yorktown. — By the middle of September Wash-ington and Rocham-beau had reachedLafayettes headquar-ters at the end of themonth the combinedarmies had appearedbefore the Frenchfleet of twenty-eightships of the line ands i x frigates, underCount De Grasse (de-gras), which had re-cently sailed from theWest Indies to theChesapeake Bay, appeared in the York River opposite York-town. Cornwallis was in an uncomfortable position. TheContinental armies hemmed him in and prevented his escapeby land, and the French fleet obstructed his retreat by ROCHAM-BEAU^WASHINGTON A The Battleground of Yorktown. 160 ESSENTIALS OF UNITED STATES HISTORY The real siege began with a bombardment on the 9th ofOctober. The American armies, throwing up entrenchmentsin parallel lines from a point below Cornwalliss position toanother point above the town, advanced nearer day by day. 181. The Surrender. — For ten days the Americans, aidedby their French allies, hemmed Cornwallis in closer and closer;a full hundred cannon were concentrated against his fortifi-cations until every British gun was disabled and , on the 19th of October, 1781, terms of capitulationwere agreed upon, and the entire British army, numberingnearly eight thousand, marched under arms to a plain on anouter edge of the town and there formally surrendered. Corn-wallis, worn out, sick, and mortified, deputed General OHarato tender his sword. Some months before this General Lin-coln had been obliged to give up his sword at Cha
Size: 1562px × 1600px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900, bookpublishernewyo, bookyear1906
