CHAPTER X
NAVAL OPERATIONS PRECEDING AND DETERMINING THE FALL OF YORKTOWN. CORNWALLIS SURRENDERS
1781
Summary of Land Operations in Virginia early in 1781 [169]
Portsmouth Occupied [170]
A French Squadron from Newport, and a British from Gardiner's Bay, proceed to the Scene [170]
They meet off the Chesapeake [171]
Action between Arbuthnot and des Touches, March 16, 1781 [171]
The Advantage rests with the French, but they return to Newport. Arbuthnot enters the Chesapeake [174]
Cornwallis reaches Petersburg, Virginia, May 20 [175]
Under the directions of Sir Henry Clinton he evacuates Portsmouth and concentrates his forces at Yorktown, August 22 [175]
The French Fleet under de Grasse Anchors in the Chesapeake, August 30 [176]
British Naval Movements, in July and August, affecting conditions in the Chesapeake [176]
Admiral Graves, successor to Arbuthnot at New York, joined there by Sir Samuel Hood, August 28 [177]
Washington and Rochambeau move upon Cornwallis [178]
The British Fleet under Graves arrives off the Chesapeake [179]
Action between de Grasse and Graves, September 5 [179]
Hood's Criticism of Graves's Conduct [181]
The British, worsted, return to New York. De Grasse, reinforced, re-enters the Chesapeake, September 11 [184]
Cornwallis Surrenders, October 19 [184]
De Grasse and Hood Return to West Indies [185]