Description
Osprey’s Campaign title for the Siege of Yorktown (1781), which was once a part of the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783). By 1781 Britain’s struggle to contain the rebels in her American colonies had reached an inglorious stalemate. Six years on from the British defeat by the New England militia at Boston, George Washington’s rebuilt Continental Army – with strengthen from the French – now systematically started to are searching for out and destroy British forces even though secure by apparently impregnable defences. Yorktown would be a salutary lesson to the British Crown concerning the odds she now faced in holding directly to her colonies.