3) Days before the Siege of Yorktown began a British Naval fleet showed up at the entrance to Chesapeake Bay. de Grasse felt it a point of honor that he go out and meet them in battle. Fortunately, the English Admiral in charge mixed up his signals to the fleet making a route by the French a foregone conclusion.
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Best Answer: The Battle of Yorktown came about for three main reasons. 1) The French Navy Commander Comte de Grasse had a couple of months to spare between missions for France in the Caribean. George Washington desperately wanted him to come to New York instead but de Grasse insisted on Yorktown.
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The Siege of Yorktown or Battle of Yorktown in 1781 was a decisive victory by combined assault of American forces led by General George Washington and French forces led by General Comte de Rochambeau over a British Army commanded by General Lord Cornwallis.
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The Battle of Yorktown was the last major battles before the signing of the Treaty of Paris in September of 1783. During the signing, the British were asked to pose for a painting for the history books, but they refused to face forward.
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(Redirected from Battle of Yorktown (1862)). This article is about the American Civil War battle. For the American Revolutionary War battle, see Siege of Yorktown. The Battle of Yorktown or Siege of Yorktown was fought from April 5 to May 4, 1862, as part of the Peninsula Campaign of the American Civil War.
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As a result of this victory, de Grasse blocked any escape by sea for Cornwallis. Washington had dispatched the French general Marquis de Lafayette to contain Cornwallis in Yorktown until he arrived, and Lafayette did so. By late September the army and naval forces had surrounded Cornwallis by land and by sea.
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the battle of yorktown was the final battle of the american revolution.. gen. cornwallis(britain) decided to retreat to yorktown, VA after a bad defeat in another state.
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The siege preparations at Yorktown consisted of 15 batteries with more than 70 heavy guns, including two 200-pounder Parrotts and 12 100-pound Parrots, with the rest of the rifled pieces divided between 20-pounder and 30-pounder Parrotts and 4.5-inch (110 mm) Rodman siege rifles.
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The battle took place near the site of the 1781 Siege of Yorktown, the final battle of the American Revolutionary War in the east.
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by Janelle Pavao. The Battle of Yorktown, also called the Siege of Yorktown, was the final battle of the American Revolutionary War even though the Treaty of Paris, ending the war, would not be signed for another 2 years. Yorktown, Virginia was founded in 1691 by Thomas Ballard along with Joseph Ring. The city was designed to be a shipping port for tobacco from Europe.
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when did battle of yorktown begin
The Battle of Yorktown begun in 1781.