• Yorktown Battlefield

    Yorktown Battlefield

    Part of Colonial National Historical Park Virginia

Navies During the Yorktown Campaign

Larrabee, Harold. Decision at the Chesapeake. New York: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., 1964.

Preston, Anthony. Navies of the American Revolution. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall Inc., 1975.

Sands, John O. Yorktown's Captive Fleet. Charlottesville, VA: The University Press of Virginia, 1983.

Warner, Oliver. Great Sea Battles. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1963.

Did You Know?

Living History Participants

On July 6, 1781, near Jamestown, the Marquis de Lafayette’s small American force fought General Cornwallis’s army at the Battle of Green Spring. Lafayette lost this, Virginia’s largest infantry battle of the war, but saved his army, enabling him to spy on the British army as it moved to Yorktown.