Victory at Yorktown - End of the American Revolution
October 19, 1781 marked the end of the Siege of Yorktown, Washington's miraculous victory and the final surrender of British General Cornwallis's entire army of 8000. Acclaimed historian Richard Ketchum's now classic "Victory at Yorktown: The Campaign That Won the Revolution" is a masterpiece of great storytelling of this historic world event.
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Victory at Yorktown: The Campaign That Won the Revolution, by Richard M Ketchum (2004 – 368pp)
Dramatic coverage of Washington’s army’s remarkable overland trek from New York along with French troops from Newport and Cornwallis’s ignominious defeat at Yorktown.