How did the battle of Yorktown start?

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Malakai Reeves

5 April, 02:15

How did the battle of Yorktown start?

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Harper Stevens · Answer 1

In a stroke of luck for the Patriots, the French fleet commanded by Francois, Count de Grasse, departed St. Domingue (the then-French colony that is now Haiti) for the Chesapeake Bay, just as Cornwallis chose Yorktown, at the mouth of the Chesapeake, as his base. Washington realized that it was time to act.