George Washington was the General that commanded an army of Frenchmen at Yorktown, Virginia. There were 3,100 militia and 8,000 continentals in addition to the 7,800 Frenchmen under his command.
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Quoted from Wikipedia:"The Siege of Yorktown, Battle of Yorktown, or Surrender of Yorktown in 1781 was a decisive victory by a combined assault of American forces led by General George Washington and French forces led by the Comte de Rochambeau over a British Army commanded by Lieutenant General Lord Cornwallis. It proved to be the last major land battle of the American Revolutionary War in North America, as the surrender of Cornwallis' army prompted the British government eventually to negotiate an end to the conflict."
The Union army was commanded by Major General William S. Rosecrans and the Confederates were led by General Braxton Bragg.
Yorktown took place in the American Revolution and not the civil war a 100 years later. Yorktown was the final battle between the American/ French troops and the British. __ The Siege of Yorktown took place in 1862. To be more precise, April 5-May 4 1862, Union General McClellan's army ran into Major General Magruder's smaller Confederate army and laid siege to the Virginia town. Yorktown, Virginia is located in York County and Newport News.
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