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Yorktown was a former tobacco trading post now in decline, not much bigger than a sizable town. But Yorktown was tucked away on the northern edge of the York peninsula in rural Virginia, and in 1781 it became the site of a short siege between two small armies, fought with all the current decorum and formality of 18th hundred years European warfare. About 5,000 English and Germans confronted perhaps 18,000 Us citizens and France. After only three weeks the smaller garrison surrendered, worn out and low on ammunition. Casualties for both attributes totaled less than 1,000 useless and wounded. By contrast, at the siege of Stalingrad 161 years later, 107,000 Germans surrendered to one-point-two million Russians after five months of desperate fighting. At least a million passed on. At Waterloo in 1815, 190,000 troops slugged it out, going out of 14,000 useless in 10 time. Another siege would happen at Yorktown during the Civil Warfare 81 years following the more famous siege. Yorktown does not rank as a significant military proposal by the conventional criteria of size, length of time or casualties, but this small range encounter was one of the most decisive fights in military background. The fact that it was the last major challenge of the North american Revolution has ensured that each Briton and North american has heard about it.
