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The victory at Yorktown and the American Revolution were honored in Libertas Americana, a 1783 medallion minted in Paris and designed there by US Ambassador Benjamin Franklin. Following the surrender, the American and French officers entertained the British officers to dinner.
French (left) and British ships (right) at the Battle of the Chesapeake off Yorktown in 1781; the outnumbered British fleet departed, leaving Cornwallis no choice but to capitulate. French involvement in the American Revolutionary War of 1775–1783 began in 1776 [ 1 ] when the Kingdom of France secretly shipped supplies to the Continental Army ...
By December 1780, the American Revolutionary War's North American theatres had reached a critical point. The Continental Army had suffered major defeats earlier in the year, with its southern armies either captured or dispersed in the loss of Charleston and the Battle of Camden in the south, while the armies of George Washington and the British commander-in-chief for North America, Sir Henry ...
Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau (1 July 1725 – 10 May 1807) was a French Royal Army officer and nobleman who played a critical role in the Franco-American victory at siege of Yorktown in 1781 during the American Revolutionary War.
French troops at Yorktown came from two separate sources. The larger force (known as the Expédition Particulière ), which was under the command of Lieutenant-General Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau , landed at Newport, Rhode Island in 1780 and marched overland to join Washington's army outside New York in the summer of 1781.
The French were able to achieve control of the sea lanes against the British and provided the Franco-American army with siege artillery and French reinforcements. These proved decisive in the Siege of Yorktown , effectively securing independence for the Thirteen Colonies .
French involvement in the war would prove to be exceedingly important during the Siege of Yorktown, when 10,800 French regulars and 29 French warships, under the command of the Comte de Rochambeau and Comte de Grasse respectively, joined forces with General George Washington and the Marquis de Lafayette to obtain the surrender of Lord ...
The French under de Grasse defeated a British fleet at the Battle of the Chesapeake in 1781, thus ensuring that the Franco-American ground forces would win the ongoing Siege of Yorktown, the last major land battle of the Revolutionary War. The British surrendered to American and French forces at Yorktown in 1781.