CONTENTS:

PART I. Yorktown ... 1
PART II. The French-American Alliance ... 5
PART III. Lafayette ... 9
PART IV. Washington ... 21
PART V. D'Estaing ... 37
PART VI. Inaction During 1779 ... 47
PART VII. The Southern Campaign in 1780 ... 55
PART VIII. Rochambeau ... 67
IX. Virginia ... 81
X. Cornwallis ... 95
XI. Cornwallis--Lafayette ... 105
XII. Clinton-Cornwallis controversy--Action at Green Spring ... 111
XIII. Louis XVI--Vergennes--Franklin ... 127
XIV. Washington's Intentions and Plans ... 135
XV. The Sea Battle of the Capes of Virginia--DeGrasse--Graves ... 155
XVI. Concentration of the Allies Around Yorktown ... 177
XVII. The Siege of Yorktown ... 189
XVIII. The Capture of Redoubts 9 and 10 ... 197
XIX. The Surrender of Cornwallis's Army at Yorktown ... 201
XX. Returns of British Casualties at Yorktown--Prisoners of War ... 213


ILLUSTRATIONS [not in our online version]

Washington in 1772 ... 2
The Yorktown monument ... 6
Lafayette in 1779 ... 10
Washington's oath of allegiance ... 22
D'Estaing ... 38
Designs on Lafayette's sword ... 50
Rochambeau ... 68
Cornwallis ... 96
Washington's diary, August 14,1781 ... 152
De Grasse ... 156
Ville de Paris, flagship of De Grasse ... 162
London, flagship of Graves ... 170
The Moore house ... 204
Lafayette Monument in Washington ... 208
Rochambeau Monument in Washington ... 210
Yorktown-Inside the British works ... In pocket
Yorktown and Gloucester ... In pocket
Yorktown, from the Horn work to York River ... In pocket
Yorktown--Governor Nelson's house ... In pocket


MAPS (In pocket of back cover) [not in our online version]

No. 1. The southern campaign, 1781.
No. 2. The Virginia campaign, 1781.
No. 3. Strategical map of activities in the north. March of the French and
       American Armies in 1781.
No. 4. Strategical map of the West Indies.
No. 5. The sea battle of the capes of Virginia, September 3. 1781.
No. 6. The investment of Yorktown, October, 1781.
No. 7. British works at Yorktown and Gloucester. French and American siege
       works.