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Hace 17 horas · 3,000 dead or wounded, [6] 5,000 captured [5] The Battle of the Saintes (known to the French as the Bataille de la Dominique ), also known as the Battle of Dominica, was an important naval battle in the Caribbean between the British and the French that took place 9–12 April 1782. The British victory was considered their greatest over the ...
Hace 2 días · James Monroe (/ m ə n ˈ r oʊ / mən-ROH; April 28, 1758 – July 4, 1831) was an American statesman, lawyer, diplomat, and Founding Father who served as the fifth president of the United States from 1817 to 1825, a member of the Democratic-Republican Party.He was the last Founding Father to serve as president as well as the last president of the Virginia dynasty.
Hace 5 días · Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess and 2nd Earl Cornwallis was a British soldier and statesman, probably best known for his defeat at Yorktown, Virginia, in the last important campaign (September 28–October 19, 1781) of the American Revolution.
Hace 5 días · The 33rd was arguably Britain’s most elite regiment of the era and they fought in almost every major battle of the revolution. Their colonel was none other than Charles Cornwallis – famous in America as the man who surrendered at Yorktown.
Hace 1 día · On September 5, de Grasse’s fleet successfully fought off a British fleet sent to aid Cornwallis at the Battle of the Chesapeake. The failure of the British fleet to bring aid or assist in an escape trapped Cornwallis in Yorktown. Washington and Rochambeau arrived in September and laid siege to the city, outnumbering the British by 2 to 1.
Hace 5 días · The March to Valley Forge by William Trego. Valley Forge is where George Washington and the Continental Army camped during the winter of 1777-1778. The troops suffered from harsh cold, ... It was there in 1781 that a combined French and American army led by George Washington defeated and captured General Cornwallis and his army.
Hace 5 días · Arnold, who had helped lead the invasion of Virginia in the first half of 1781, by early September had turned his attention to an assault on Connecticut’s coastline. His men captured Fort Griswold, slaughtering American troops after their surrender, and set fire to New London, the port town just twelve miles from the place of his birth.
