Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown

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17 LORD CORNWALLIS AT YORKTOWN. Cesaur AMERICAN COLORTYPE CO., N. Y. COPYRIGHT 1907 BY JAMESTOWN A. & V. CO.

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4091 MESTOWN JAM COPYATOHY 1908 JAMESTOWN OFFICIAL SEAL Ex.co 1907 1607-JAMESTOWN EXPOSITION-1907 OFFICIAL SOUVENIR FOR COMMUNICATION THIS SPACE MAY BE USED 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, 1₁. I on his arrival 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.) PUBLISHED BY THE CONCESSIONAIRE, THE JAMESTOWN AMUSEMENT & VENDING CO., INC., NORFOLK VA. UNITED STATES, CUBA,CANADA AND MEXICO FOREIGN TWO CENTS.