71ST CONGRESS, 3D SESSION

SENATE DOCUMENT NO. 273

THE VIRGINIA CAMPAIGN AND THE BLOCKADE AND
SIEGE OF YORKTOWN 1781

INCLUDING A BRIEF NARRATIVE OF THE
FRENCH PARTICIPATION IN THE REVOLUTION
PRIOR TO THE SOUTHERN CAMPAIGN

BY
COLONEL H. L. LANDERS, F. A.
HISTORICAL SECTION, ARMY WAR COLLEGE

PRESENTED BY MR. BINGHAM
February 7, 1931.—Ordered to be printed with illustrations and maps

UNITED STATES
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE
WASHINGTON: 1931

[A copy of this volume is in the U.S. Army Center of Military History library under the call number E 237.Y6.L3]

FOR SALE BY THE SUPERINTENDENT OF DOCUMENTS, WASHINGTON, D. C. — PRICE $1.75 (CLOTH COVER) CONTENTS

CONTENTS

PART	*Page*
I. Yorktown	1
II. The French-American Alliance	5
III. Lafayette	9
IV. Washington	21
V. D'Estaing	37
VI. Inaction During 1779	47
VII. The Southern Campaign in 1780	55
VIII. Rochambeau	67
IX. Virginia	81
X. Cornwallis	95
XI. Cornwallis—Lafayette	105
XII. Clinton-Cornwallis controversy—Action at Green Spring	111
XIII. Louis XVI—Vergennes—Franklin	127
XIV. Washington's Intentions and Plans	135
XV. The Sea Battle of the Capes of Virginia—DeGrasse—Graves	155
XVI. Concentration of the Allies Around Yorktown	177
XVII. The Siege of Yorktown	189
XVIII. The Capture of Redoubts 9 and 10	197
XIX. The Surrender of Cornwallis's Army at Yorktown	201
XX. Returns of British Casualties at Yorktown—Prisoners of War	213

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ILLUSTRATIONS

	Page
Washington in 1772	2
The Yorktown monument	6
Lafayette in 1779	10
Washington's oath of allegiance	22
D'Estaing	38
Designs on Lafayette's sword	50
Rochambeau	68
Cornwallis	96
Washington's diary, August 14,1781	152
De Grasse	156
Ville de Paris, flagship of De Grasse	162
London, flagship of Graves	170
The Moore house	204
Lafayette Monument in Washington	208
Rochambeau Monument in Washington	210
Yorktown-Inside the British works	In pocket
Yorktown and Gloucester	In pocket
Yorktown, from the Horn work to York River	In pocket
Yorktown—Governor Nelson's house	In pocket

MAPS
(In pocket of back cover)

No. 1.	The southern campaign, 1781.
No. 2.	The Virginia campaign, 1781.
No. 3.	Strategical map of activities in the north. March of the French and American Armies in 1781.
No. 4.	Strategical map of the West Indies.
No. 5.	The sea battle of the capes of Virginia, September 3. 1781. (MISSING FROM CMH COPY)
No. 6.	The investment of Yorktown, October, 1781. (MISSING FROM CMH COPY)
No. 7.	British works at Yorktown and Gloucester. French and American siege works. (MISSING FROM CMH COPY)

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