With his back to the York River, British General Lord Charles Cornwallis intended to refit and resupply his 9,000-man army in the fall of 1781. Sensing an opportunity, George Washington and his French ally, the Comte de Rochambeau, moved their force of almost 20,000 men south to Virginia.

Informative overview of the Yorktown Campaign and its importance to the end of the war.

Series of letters from George Washington to Charles Cornwallis, accepting the terms of British surrender after Yorktown.

In his "Journal of the Siege of Yorktown," kept between September 28 and October 21, 1781, St. George Tucker, a lieutenant colonel and French interpreter on the staff of General Thomas Nelson, narrates the events that led to the surrender of the British army led by Lord Cornwallis.