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Picture

The caption in for the picture in the infobox, a portrait by John Trumbull, suggests that it depicts the surrender of Cornwallis. Howver I thought it was one of the well known facts of the battle that Cornwallis didn't actually surrender, but sent his deputy General O'Hara to do the deed. I can't see anyone who looks particularly like Cornwallis, so I'm changing it to read the British surrendering rather than Cornwallis. It's possible that it was Turnbull who got it wrong (and incorrectly portrayed Lord C), so somebody please change it back if it is the case.Lord Cornwallis (talk) 04:52, 28 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

re-wording of sentence

The following sentence is a bit clumsy, in my opinion; The French were ordered to distract the British with a false attack, but they were told by a French deserter and the British artillery fire turned on the French from the Fusiliers redoubt.[32]. It toook me a couple of re-reads to discover the who that were told were the british? (I'm still not sure)

Why not;

The French were ordered to distract the British with a false attack, but the British were advised by a French deserter and turned their artillery on the French from the Fusiliers redoubt. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Joey2027 (talk • contribs) 20:37, 29 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed-Kieran4 (talk) 01:21, 30 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

No. of French regulars

The article sites 7,800 French soldiers at the Siege of Yorktown. The infobox says 11,800. Where did the other 4000men come from and when did they arrive. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.108.204.244 (talk) 18:57, 7 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]


I was wondering that too. This article--well, the infobox anyway, the article has correct numbers--has much higher numbers of French troops than I have seen anywhere, not to mentkion lower numbers of U.S. troops. De Grasse's 3,000 men are counted twice here, judging by the edit summary from a previous change. The numbers have been changed to reflect generally accepted numbers. —Preceding unsigned comment added by MarechalNey (talk • contribs) 00:58, 4 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

This was probably due to vandalism at some point. Magic♪piano 01:08, 4 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Naming

The German wiki mentions another, perhaps colloquial, name for the siege of Yorktown: "German Battle"; due to the huge numbers of Germans involved on all sides: the German Regiments in the British and French Army as well as the many German immigrants that joined the American Forces. I think someone should check out the validity and commonness of this naming and then we might add it to this article, similarly to the way the German wiki did, in the first, introductary phrase. What do you guys think? -Yamok 19:32, 27 September 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Yamok (talk • contribs)

This is an interesting observation. I found a useful German source, that documents the presence of Germans in all three armies. Magic♪piano 20:01, 27 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Effect of disease (malaria)

I was surprised to see that this battle didn't include any mention of the effect of malaria upon both armies, but especially the British army which was effectively paralyzed towards the end. See for instance [1]; it's also discussed in the book 1493. Up until the late 19th century, disease struck down far more soldiers than battle, so this should deserve a section of its own by someone more knowledgeable. Seleucus (talk) 16:37, 5 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]


I agree with you, and I think there is much more specialized work about that than the references you are quoting. (Smallpox and Scurvy are, I think, the best documented in scholarly articles) I cannot for the moment add much more, but I will try my best when I can find some time to do that, if there's no other contribution before. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.201.21.242 (talk) 12:33, 15 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

As a physicist, I haven't really looked up historical scholarly articles in the past, so any contributions you can make would be very welcome. I'd added a small section a while ago, but feel free to revise or otherwise change it. Seleucus (talk) 04:20, 24 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Surrender songs

In my history book ([1]) It says on page 185, that during the american surrender the American band played "Yankee Doodle", and that the British band played "The World Turned Upside Down" --Aidoboy (talk) 13:18, 28 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

  1. ^ Multiple Authors ((c) 2003). The American Republic to 1877. Glencoe. p. 670. ISBN 0-07-826477-4. {{cite book}}: Check date values in: |year= (help)CS1 maint: year (link)
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