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Early in October 1781, French-American forces tightened their siege of the British army in Yorktown and bombarded the town with combined artillery. Incessant shellfire drove townspeople to seek shelter under this bluff and forced the British commander, Lord Cornwallis, to move his headquarters to a nearby cave. The siege ended quickly with the British surrender on October 19, and although Yorktown returned to peace, it never regained its former prosperity.
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Yorktown, Virginia · United States
