It followed six years of seesaw combat for independence. It was a victory not just of Americans, but of allies. George Washington and the Comte de Rochambeau jointly led the siege operations. French soldiers at Yorktown outnumbered Americans.
Spain and the Dutch Republic supported the colonists financially and logistically. After Yorktown, Britain, France, and Spain continued to fight each other around the world. They were right of course. The war, and to some extent the fighting, continued for some time.
The western frontier still saw conflict between Indians who supported the British cause and American settlers, and numerous skirmishes continued to be fought in New Jersey, New York, and the Carolinas, primarily between patriot militia forces and organized groups of loyalists.
The Yorktown campaign, however, was the last significant military engagement involving British regular forces and the Continental Army. Nevertheless, the Revolution was not over. By early November, the grand allied army at Yorktown had dispersed.
The most immediate result of the British defeat at Yorktown, therefore, was a stalemate in the South, much like the one that had existed in the North since British forces in North America outnumbered those that the allies could muster, and even in the lower South the British had more troops than General Nathanael Greene commanded. Washington realized that it was time to act. By September 28, Washington had completely encircled Cornwallis and Yorktown with the combined forces of Continental and French troops.
After three weeks of non-stop bombardment, both day and night, from artillery, Cornwallis surrendered to Washington in the field at Yorktown on October 17, , effectively ending the War for Independence. Pleading illness, Cornwallis did not attend the formal surrender ceremony, held on October Although the war persisted on the high seas and in other theaters, including with Native American and British forces in the west , the Patriot victory at Yorktown ended fighting in the American colonies.
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The whole operation had consumed fewer than ten minutes. Of his infantrymen, Hamilton lost just nine in the attack, with some 30 wounded, while the French-led troops lost 27 men, with wounded, according to Fleming. Surrounded by enemy fire, and blocked from receiving aid by the French fleet that had arrived in Chesapeake Bay, Cornwallis was trapped. On the morning of October 19, the British sent forward a red-coated drummer boy, followed by an officer waving a white handkerchief to the parapet.
All guns fell silent—Cornwallis had surrendered. But the demoralizing loss at Yorktown diminished the British will to continue to fight the rebels. On September 3, , the Revolutionary War came to an official end with the signing of the Treaty of Paris.
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