Originally Posted by John Doe

Yes! Rochambeau was out in the river while GW was marching into the town of York. They had the Brits boxed in tight. Cornwallis had fled to York to be rescued by the Royal Navy, but one month before, Cmte. de Grasse had handed the British the only naval defeat they had ever suffered in 200 years of empire building---and thus sealed off the bay. Cornwallis surrendered in a tiny cave in the bluffs on the South side of the York River and I pay homage to the Seige of Yorktown by visiting his cave every year, as it is in the parking lot of my favorite bar in the world, the Yorktown Pub