Belagerung von Yorktown

This painting depicts the forces of British Major General Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis (1738–1805) (who was not himself present at the surrender), surrendering to French and American forces after the Siege of Yorktown (September 28 – October 19, 1781) during the American Revolutionary War. The central figures depicted are Generals Charles O'Hara and Benjamin Lincoln. The United States government commissioned Trumbull to paint patriotic paintings, including this piece, for them in 1817, paying for the piece in 1820.

Re-enactors fire from an American Revolutionary War redoubt on the Army Heritage Trail. It is a replica of Redoubt 10, a British redoubt seized by Continental Army troops at the Siege of Yorktown on October 14, 1781.

Transcript of General Orders from Colonel (Adjutant General) Alexander Scammell on December 19, 1780. Sent from Headquarters in New Windsor.

Auguste Gouder - Siège d'Yorck-Town - 1781

Storming of redoubt#10 during the Siege of Yorktown.

Article in a 1782 London newspaper

General notes: Lithograph

Captured British flags from Yorktown are being brought into Philadelphia under escort of the Light Horse troop for presentation to the Continental Congress

Print depicts the surrender of the British forces after the Battle of Yorktown. Major General O'Hara, substituting for General Cornwallis, is shown handing his sword to the Comte de Rochambeau, who is standing next to General Washington.

Obelisk-shaped clock on a pedestal (so called "Yorktown clock" type). Paris. Author - Jean-Nicolas Schmit. 1783-1790. Moscow State Historical museum Pyramid-shaped clock. Paris. 1780-1790s. From antique salon "Na Patriarshikh" (Moscow) collection

"On this site in September 1775 Colonel Patrick Henry established camp grounds for Virginia troops who were to rendezvous and train at Williamsburg. Several Virginia regiments left here in 1776 and 1777 to join General George Washington's army in the north. In 1777 students formed a college company with the president, Rev. James Madison, as captain. Troops camped here before the battle of Yorktown in 1781."

Title: Columbia's noblest sons Physical description: 1 print. Notes: This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card.; Associated name on shelflist card: Kimmel & Forster.

Title: Confederate fortifications at Gloucester Point, Va., opposite Yorktown, Va Abstract: 2 men with cannon in foregrd.; ships on water in backgrd. Physical description: 1 photographic print. Notes: Civil War Photograph Collection.; This record contains unverified data from caption card.

Title: Confederate fortifications, Yorktown, Va Abstract: 8 men at sand-bagged cannon emplacement; man in mid-ground seated on wreckage of cannon. Physical description: 1 photographic print. Notes: No. 2367.; Civil War Collection.; This record contains unverified data from caption card.

Title: Confederate fortifications, Yorktown, Va Physical description: 1 photographic print on card mount : albumen. Notes: No. B140.; Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.; Title from item.

Title: Confederate fortifications, Yorktown, Va Physical description: 1 photographic print on card mount : albumen. Notes: No. B141.; Hand written on verso from an unidentified source: Confederate Battery at Yorktown which fired upon the Federal Balloonist and upon which "Balloon Bryan" looked down. (Capt. John Randolph Bryan).; Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.; Hand written on verso: Miller, vol. 8, page 371.; Title from item.

Title: Confederate fortifications, Yorktown, Va Physical description: 1 photographic print on card mount : albumen. Notes: No. B510.; Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.; Title from item.

Title: Confederate fortifications, Yorktown, Va Physical description: 1 photographic print on card mount : albumen. Notes: No. B588.; Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.; Title from item.

Title: Confederate naval battery at Yorktown, Va.; Nelson Church hospital (in background) July 1, 1862 Abstract/medium: 1 photographic print.

Yorktown National Military Park

Title: Cornwallis is taken!: Lieut. Co. Tighlman of Washington's staff, announcing the surrender of Cornwallis, from the steps of the State House, (Independence Hall) at midnight, October 23rd 1781 Abstract/medium: 1 print : lithograph.

British general Charles Cornwallis

Title: Die Americaner machen den Lord Cornwallis mit seiner Armee zu Gefangnen, bey Yorktown den 19ten Octobr 1781 Abstract: Print shows British troops handing over their weapons to the Americans at the surrender at Yorktown, one of twelve scenes depicting the history of the American Revolution. Physical description: 1 print : etching. Notes: Published in: The American Revolution in drawings and prints; a checklist of 1765-1790 graphics in the Library of Congress / Compiled by Donald H. Cresswell, with a foreword by Sinclair H. Hitchings. Washington : [For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off.], 1975, no. 327.; D. Chodowiecki inv. et del. ; D. Berger sculpsit 1784.; [Plate] 11.; S. 137.; Title from item.

The American capturing Lord Cornwallis with his army at Yorktown on October 19, 1781. Engraving shows British troops handing over their weapons to the Americans at the surrender after the Battle of Yorktown.

American storming of redoubt #10 during the Siege of Yorktown.

Title: Federal Battery - Yorktown. May 1862 Physical description: 1 negative (2 plates) :