The British surrender at Yorktown did not end the Revolutionary War, and two more years of fighting continued in the southern United States and across the world from the Caribbean to Spain while a British army occupied New York City until 1783. Soon after the victory at Yorktown, most of the Continental Army moved back to New York state in November 1781, while part of the French army remained in Virginia over the winter of 1781-82 to reduce the strain on supplies in hard-hit New Jersey. In July 1782, four infantry regiments, artillery, engineers, and a wagon train returned to Prince William County in five marching groups. Miserably hot weather slowed even veteran troops to a little over ten miles per day. When the first French troops reached this area on July 15, they spread their campsites on both sides of Quantico Creek, and during the next four days more than 5,000 men passed through Dumfries on their way to Alexandria before returning to the New York area, where they remained until the end of the war.