The Battle Of Yorktown

The Battle of Yorktown was a military dispute between Britain and America. The battlefield that the British and American Forces fought on during the Battle of Yorktown was located in Yorktown, Virginia. In 1780 the French government had sent over a powerful army under Rochambeau. It was landed at Newport. It stayed there a year to protect the ships that came from France from seize by a stronger British fleet that had at once appeared off the mouth of the harbor. Another French fleet and another French army were in the West Indies.
Cornwallis marched northward from Wilmington with additional troops from Virginia that he added to his force. Then he set out to capture Marquis de Lafayette and his men. Cornwallis encamped at Yorktown, and Lafayette