Battle of Yorktown (1781) • General Cornwallis set up camp in Yorktown, Virginia.

Battle of Yorktown (1781) • A French fleet, under the leadership of Admiral de Grasse, blocked the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay, preventing Cornwallis from receiving supplies from the British navy. Help!!

Battle of Yorktown (1781) • George Washington, along with 6,000 French troops led by Gen. Rochambeau, marched to Yorktown from New York. • Cornwallis surrendered on October 17, 1781, ending the Revolutionary War! • The U.S. and French troops cornered Cornwallis in Yorktown. Help!! I surrender!

Surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown, Virginia, October 19, 1781, by which over 7,000 British and Hessians became prisoners.

The Treaty of Paris April 1783 - The British recognized the U.S. as an independent nation. - U.S. territory stretched from Canada to Florida and from the Atlantic Ocean to the Mississippi River. - Britain returned Florida to Spain. - The U.S. promised to ask state legislatures to pay Loyalists for the property they lost in the war. (However, most states paid the Loyalists nothing.)

SSUSH4d Review Yorktown was a victory won by a combination of American and French forces. Lafayette helped to corner Britain‘s Lord Cornwallis and his troops at Yorktown in a triangular trap. Cornwallis had led his army on to a peninsula on the Chesapeake Bay in Virginia. With the arrival of the French Fleet, the British Fleet was unable to evacuate Cornwallis‘ army. Cornwallis was surrounded by American forces, French Forces, and water. Unable to remove his army, Cornwallis surrendered. Geography was a major contributor to the American victory at Yorktown. The American defeat of the British at Yorktown (1781) was the last major battle of the American Revolution. This defeat destroyed the British will to continue the war. The war did not officially end until the Treaty of Paris (1783) announced American independence without qualification