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François-Joseph-Paul, count de Grasse

François-Joseph-Paul, count de Grasse (1722–1788) was a French naval commander during the American Revolution. De Grasse was instrumental in the successful siege of Yorktown in 1781, leading his fleet from the West Indies to the Chesapeake and blockading Cornwallis’s army while waiting for the arrival of Franco-American forces under Washington and Rochambeau.

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Yorktown

Yorktown, Virginia, was the site of the surrender of British general Lord Charles Cornwallis to George Washington in October 1781. The surrender signaled the beginning of the end of the Revolutionary War.

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Surrender of the British General Cornwallis to the Americans, October 19, 1781

These three documents—a map, a manuscript, and a print—tell the story of the surrender of British...