French sailors marched in ... The sailors saluted both nations’ flags in honor of the forces who fought in the 1781 Siege of Yorktown. That battle led to Britain’s surrender.

British Gen. Cornwallis’s sword, believed to be the one surrendered to Americans at Yorktown in 1781, is on display at the U.S. Army museum.

General George Washington and his French allies bottled up British General Charles Cornwallis and his forces, leaving them no other option than to wave the white flag. Yorktown almost didn’t happen.

Hulton Archive, Getty Images From the perspective of the American rebels and their French ... BATTLE OF BARRICADES, TRENCHES, AND INTENTIONAL SHIPWRECKS. Map of Yorktown, Virginia, showing the ...

If France decides to join the United States in a strike against Syria, it would be the first time American and French forces have conducted a joint military operation since the Siege of Yorktown ...

Finally, the French joined Washington’s army in 1781 on the Hudson River, and there Rochambeau suggested that the two armies strike south at Cornwallis, then camp at Yorktown, instead of ...

On Oct. 19, 1781, a battered British army ... of Yorktown to the isolated field and surrendered to combined French and American forces under Gen. George Washington, after the last major battle ...