battle+of+yorktown+period+1

Gregory Jain

=//__**Battle of Yorktown**__//= 1. The battle took place on September 28th to October 19th 1781.

2. The battle was fought in Yorktown, Virginia. 3. The amries/navies were the Britsh, French, and the American. 4. The leaders of the Americans were George Washington, Marquis de Lafayette, and Alexander Scammel, the French were under the comand of Comte de Rochambeau and Comte de Grasse, and the British were under the command of Charles Cornwallis and Charles O'Hara. 5. The imporant facts of the battle of Yorktown was that it took place on September 28th to October 19th 1781. The Americans won this war and forced the British to surrender and this was the last major battle that bassically gave the Americans its Independence. 6. The significane of the war was that the Americans won the war and the armies of the Americans were 8,800, the army of the French, 7,800 and the army of the British were 6,000. citations: []