At which 1781 campaign did British General Cornwallis surrender to American and French forces?

British General Charles Cornwallis surrendered at the Siege of Yorktown in 1781.

The siege took place in Yorktown, Virginia, from September 28 to October 19, 1781. American forces under George Washington worked with French troops commanded by the Comte de Rochambeau, while French naval forces helped prevent British relief by sea.

The allied army surrounded Cornwallis’s position and captured key defensive sites through a series of coordinated attacks. Cornwallis surrendered on October 19, 1781, effectively ending major fighting in the American Revolutionary War, although the peace treaty came later.

The victory was a decisive international operation, not an exclusively American one. French military and naval support was crucial. The Treaty of Paris, signed in 1783, formally recognized United States independence from Great Britain.