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The siege of Yorktown, also known as the Battle of Yorktown and the surrender at Yorktown, began September 28, 1781, and ended on October 19, 1781, at exactly 10:30 am in Yorktown, Virginia.
20 octobre : Capitulation de Yorktown. La petite armée britannique est capturée [3]. 25 octobre : l'escadre de Suffren arrive à Port-Louis, à l’Île de France [4]. Naissances. 5 octobre : Bernard Bolzano (mort en 1848), mathématicien bohémien. 17 octobre : Johann Friedrich Meckel (mort en 1833), anatomiste allemand.
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Siege of Yorktown, (September 28–October 19, 1781), joint Franco-American land and sea campaign that entrapped a major British army on a peninsula at Yorktown, Virginia, and forced its surrender. The siege virtually ended military operations in the American Revolution.
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The Battle of Yorktown, also called the Siege of Yorktown, fought from September 28-October 19, 1781. [1] It is considered the last major land battle of the American Revolutionary War. [1] The Continental Army, led by General George Washington, won a decisive victory against the British Army, led by General Lord Charles Cornwallis. [1]
19 octobre : capitulation des Britanniques à la bataille de Yorktown face aux forces franco-américaines [6]. Octobre : un édit établit les 48 offices de receveurs généraux des finances supprimés en 1780 [1]. 21 novembre : Vergennes est aux affaires à la mort de Jean Frédéric Phélypeaux de Maurepas [5].
1771 – Premiere in Milan of the opera Ascanio in Alba, composed by Mozart at age 15. 1777 – American Revolutionary War: British General John Burgoyne surrenders his army at Saratoga, New York. 1781 – American Revolutionary War: British General Charles, Earl Cornwallis surrenders at the Siege of Yorktown.
Oct 9, 2022 · La bataille de Yorktown (1781) Yorktown 19 octobre 1781. Les insurgés américains réquisitionnent de l’aide, ils envoient Benjamin Franklin, scientifique réputé (inventeur du paratonnerre), à la Cour de France.
