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Battle of Yorktown



 
  The Battle of Yorktown can refer to:
  • Siege of Yorktown
    Siege of Yorktown

    The Siege of Yorktown or Battle of Yorktown in 1781 was a decisive victory by combined assault of American Continental Army led by General George Washington and France in the American Revolutionary War led by General Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau over a British Army commanded by General Charles Cornwallis, 1st Ma...
     (1781), a major battle during the the American Revolutionary War, also known as the American War of Independence.
  • Battle of Yorktown (1862)
    Battle of Yorktown (1862)

    The Battle of Yorktown or Siege of Yorktown was fought from April 5 to May 4, 1862, as part of the Peninsula Campaign of the American Civil War....
    , a battle during the Peninsula campaign of the American Civil War