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LORD CORNWALLIS AT YORKTOWN.
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No. 38. LORD CORNWALLIS AT YORKTOWN.
The main army of the Continental forces being engaged
in the vicinity of New York, Cornwallis plundered Vir-
ginia during the summer of 1781, unopposed except by
La Fayette, whose small and totally inadequate army
could do but little in defense of the State. In August,
Cornwallis moved his army to the York River, and, be-
lieving it to be a strong position, encamped at Yorktown.
La Fayette at once placed his army in front on the land
side, and the French fleet coming up the river to a posi-
tion near Yorktown, Cornwallis was entrapped. Wash-
ington marched his army 400 miles to join La Fayette,
and on his arriva it became impossible for Cornwallis to
escape, and after a siege of 19 days he surrendered, his
army consisting of 7,251 officers and men, 840 seamen,
240 cannons and 24 standards, to George Washington,
Commander-in-Chief, and the allied forces under Comte
de Rochambeau and Comte Grasse. (See cards Nos. 39,
41 and 42.)
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