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Siege of Yorktown (1781)

On the Age of Revolutions map as “Yorktown”

Sep–Oct 1781 — Washington’s army and de Grasse’s French fleet trap Cornwallis on a Virginia peninsula. The band plays “The World Turned Upside Down.”

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Battle site
Chapter
American Revolutionary War (chapter 2 of Age of Revolutions)
Atlas
The Age of Revolutions, 1775–1848
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Map showing Siege of Yorktown (1781), battle site in The Age of Revolutions, 1775–1848
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