The Battle of Yorktown took place in Yorktown, Virginia, United States. It was fought from September 28 to October 19, 1781, on a peninsula in Virginia where the British army, led by General Charles Cornwallis, was besieged by the combined forces of the Continental Army under George Washington and French troops under the Marquis de Lafayette and Comte de Rochambeau. This battle marked the final major land engagement of the American Revolutionary War and led to the British surrender, effectively ending the war and paving the way for American independence.
