Yorktown the Key to

winning the Revolutionary

War

Was it fate or divine providence that

allowed the Americans to win at

Yorktown or brilliant military strategy?

General Washington gives off

confidence in this portrait of him.

Washington

listened to

others and

made good

decisions.

General Washington took his army

south from New York to Yorktown.

General Washington

fooled British General

Clinton by making him

think he was still at

New York.

General Rochambeau talked to Washington about

leaving New York and going to Yorktown.

Washington and the French met to

plan the battle of Yorktown.

Washington received

aid from Lafayette

and French General

Rochambeau.

The French Fleet surround the

British at Yorktown!

The French Fleet

outnumbered and

defeated the

British Fleet in

Chesapeake Bay.

Admiral De Grasse and the French Fleet came

just in time.

British General Cornwallis is

surrounded and must surrender at

Yorktown!

Cornwallis was

surrounded on

all sides by the

Americans and

French.

Yorktown was a battle of cannons

on both sides.

Canons could shoot exploding

canon balls or bits of metal at

forces close range.

Americans received special canons

from France which devastated the

British at Yorktown.

These particular

canons were

not used

again that we

know of. Maybe

lost at sea.

Canons delivered different shot at

the battles of the revolution.

Actual Canon used at Yorktown

It took many soldiers to fire a canon

effectively.

Here it took

five volunteers

to fire the cannon.

Trenches were dug by both sides

to prepare for battle at Yorktown.

General Cornwallis

moved his troops

to the inner defenses

and allowed the

American and French

to get closer

without fighting.

The American Soldier had come a

long way since the beginning of the

Revolution.

The Americans

proved they were able

and courageous soldiers

by the end of the war.

Taking redoubt 9 &10 were crucial

in defeating the British.

Alexander Hamilton

took one of the

redoubts with

unloaded weapons

to surprise the British.

Hamilton’s men fought hand to hand at

the above redoubt.

British surrender to Americans and

French.

General Washington

had General Clinton

take the surrender

sword. Clinton had

been humiliated by

the British before.

British General Cornwallis is forced

to surrendered to General

Washington at Yorktown!

General Cornwallis

did not attend the

surrender ceremony.

This monument commemorates the

Battle of Yorktown.

The Battle of Yorktown

brought an end to the

British attempt to defeat

the Americans.