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The War of American Independence

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Operations: Virginia Theater


Adams, Randolph G. "A View of Cornwallis' Surrender at Yorktown." American Historical Review, 37 (October 1931), pp. 25-49.

Allen, E. M. La Fayette's Second Expedition to Virginia in 1781. Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 1891.

Anderson, D. R., editor. "The Letters of Col. William Woodford, Col. Robert Howe and Gen. Charles Lee to Edmund Pendleton, President of the Virginia Convention." Richmond College Historical Papers, 1 (1915), pp. 96-163.

Arthur, Robert. The End of a Revolution. New York: Vantage Press, 1965.

Aussaresses, Paul. "L'Artillerie Française au siege de Yorktown (1781)." Revue Historique de L'Armée, 26 (#2, 1970), pp. 34-42.

Burne, A. H. "Cornwallis at Yorktown." Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research, 17 (Summer 1938), pp. 71-76.

Butler, Richard. "General Richard Butler's Journal of the Siege of Yorktown." Historical Magazine, 8 (March 1864), pp. 102-112.

Calderhead, William. "Prelude to Yorktown: A Critical Week in a Major Campaign." Maryland Historical Magazine, 77 (June 1982), pp. 123-135.

Carrington, Henry B. "Lafayette's Virginia Campaign 1781." Magazine of American History, 6 (May 1881), pp. 340-352.

Chadwick, French Ensor, editor. The Graves Papers and Other Documents Relating to the Naval Operations of the Yorktown Campaign July to October 1781. New York: Naval Historical Society, 1916.

Chidsey, Donald Barr. Victory at Yorktown. New York: Crown Publishers, 1962.

Clinton, Henry. Narrative of the Campaign in 1781 in North America. London: J. Debrett, 1783.

-----. Observations on Earl Cornwallis' Answer. London: J. Debrett, 1783.

Cobb, David. "Diary and Letter of General David Cobb." Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 19 (October 1881), pp. 67-73.

Collins, James L., Jr. "Irish Participation at Yorktown." Irish Sword, 15 (Summer 1982), pp. 3-10.

Colonial National Historical Park Staff. "A Bibliography of the Virginia Campaign and Siege of Yorktown, 1781: Being a Part of the Master Bibliography of Colonial National Historical Park, Yorktown, Virginia, as of September, 1941." Undated mimeograph publication.

Cugnac, Gaspar Jean Marie René, comte de. Yorktown (1781) Trois mois d'opérations combinées sur terre et sur mar dans une guerre de coalition. Nancy, Paris and Strasbourg: Imprimerie Berger-Levrault, 1932.

Cutter, Abram E. "Surrender of Cornwallis." New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 25 (July 1871), pp. 270-271.

Dabney, Virginius. "Jack Jouette's Ride." Magazine of Albemarle County History, 30 (1972), pp. 19-27.

Davis, Burke. The Campaign that Won America: The Story of Yorktown. New York: Dial Press, 1970.

Devereux, Eugene, editor. "Extracts from Original Letters Relating to the War of Independence and Cornwallis' Capitulation at Yorktown." Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 11 (1887), pp. 333-337.

Eckenrode, H. J. The Story of the Campaign and Siege of Yorktown. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1931.

Eller, Ernest McNeill, editor. Chesapeake Bay in the American Revolution. Centreville, Md.: Tidewater Publishers, 1981.

Ferguson, Homer L. "Salvaging Revolutionary Relics from the York River." William and Mary Quarterly, 2d Ser., 19 (July 1939), pp. 257-271.

Fleming, Thomas J. Beat the Last Drum: The Siege of Yorktown, 1781. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1963.

Gaines, William H., Jr. "The Battle of the Barges." Virginia Cavalcade, 4 (Autumn 1954), pp. 33-38.

Gallatin, Gaspard de. Journal of the Siege of York-town. Translated by the French Department of the College of William and Mary. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1931.

Hale, Richard W. "New Light on the Naval Side of Yorktown." Massachusetts Historical Society Proceedings, 71 (1953-1957), pp. 124-132.

Hatch, Charles E., Jr. "The 'Affair Near James Island' (or, 'The Battle of Green Spring') July 6, 1781." Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, 53 (July 1945), pp. 172-196.

Hirschfeld, Fritz, editor. "'Burnt All Their Houses': The Log of HMS Savage during a Raid up the Potomac River, Spring, 1781." Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, 99 (October 1991), pp. 513-530.

Johnston, Henry P. The Yorktown Campaign and the Surrender of Cornwallis, 1781. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1881.

Kyte, George W. "A Projected British Attack Upon Philadelphia in 1781." Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 76 (October 1952), pp. 379-393.

-----. "Strategic Blunder: Lord Cornwallis Abandons the Carolinas." Historian, 22 (February 1960), pp. 129-144.

Landers, H. L. The Virginia Campaign and the Blockade and Siege of Yorktown, 1781. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1931.

Larrabee, Harold A. Decision at the Chesapeake. New York: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., 1954.

Lumpkin, Henry. From Savannah to Yorktown: The American Revolution in the South. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1981.

Lutnick, Solomon N. "The Defeat at Yorktown: A View from the British Press." Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, 72 (October 1964), pp. 471-478.

Luykx, John M. "Fighting for Food: British Foraging Operations at St. George's Island." Maryland Historical Magazine, 71 (Summer 1976), pp. 212-219.

Moomaw, William Hugh. "The Naval Career of Captain Hammond, 1775-1779." Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Virginia, 1955.

-----. "The British Leave Colonial Virginia." Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, 66 (April 1958), pp. 147-160.

Naisawald, Louis Van Loan. "Robert Howe's Operations in Virginia, 1775-1776." Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, 60 (July 1952), pp. 437-443.

Newsome, A. R., editor. "A British Orderly Book, 1780-1781." North Carolina Historical Review, 9 (1932), pp. 57-78, 163-186, 273-298, 366-392.

Oswald, Richard. Richard Oswald's Memorandum on the Folly of Invading Virginia, The Strategic Importance of Portsmouth, and The Need for Civilian Control of the Military. Edited by W. Stitt Robinson, Jr. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1953.

Patton, Jacob Harris. Yorktown: a compendious account of the campaign of the allied French and American forces, resulting in the surrender of Cornwallis and the close of the American Revolution; the succeeding events, to the treat of peace; and the celebration of the centennial anniversary of the surrender at Yorktown. New York: Fords, Howard & Hurlbert, 1882.

-----. "The Campaign of the Allies: The Surrender of Lord Charles Cornwallis." Magazine of American History, 7 (October 1881), pp. 241-269.

Reickley, John A. "Yorktown: The Bridge." Military Review, 61 (October 1981), pp. 15-22.

Riley, Edward M. "Yorktown During the Revolution." Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, 57 (1949), pp. 22-43, 176-188, 274-285.

Sands, John O. Yorktown's Captive Fleet. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia for the Mariner's Museum, 1983.

-----. "Sea Power at Yorktown: The Archaeology of the Captive Fleet." Ph.D. Dissertation, George Washington University, 1980.

Shy, John, editor. "Yorktown 1781: Personalities and Documents." Tocqueville Review, 3 (Fall 1981), pp. 249-348.

Stevens, Benjamin Franklin, editor. The Campaign in Virginia 1781. An exact Reprint of Six rare Pamphlets on the Clinton-Cornwallis Controversy with very numerous important Unpublished portions of the letters in their Appendixes added from the Original Manuscripts. 2 vols. London: Privately printed, 1888.

Stevens, John Austin. "The Allies at Yorktown 1781." Magazine of American History, 6 (January 1881), pp. 1-55.

Thayer, Theodore. Yorktown, campaign of strategic options. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1975.

Trimble, K. W. "Some Old Yorktown Maps." Military Engineer, 23 (September-October 1931), pp. 439-443.

Trumbull, Jonathan, Jr. "Minutes of Occurrences respecting the Seige [sic] and Capture of York in Virginia, extracted from the Journal of Colonel Jonathan Trumbull, Secretary to the General, 1781." Edited by Charles Deane. Massachusetts Historical Society Proceedings, 14 (April 1876), pp. 331-338.

Trusty, Lance. "War by the Book: The Defense of Yorktown, 1781." Indiana Academy of Social Sciences Proceedings, 11 (1976), pp. 111-125.

Tucker, St. George. "The Southern Campaign 1781 From Guilford Court House to the Siege of York Narrated in the letters from Judge St. George Tucker to his wife." Edited by Charles Watson Coleman, Jr. Magazine of American History, 7 (July, September 1881), pp. 36-46, 201-216.

-----. "St. George Tucker's Journal of the Siege of Yorktown, 1781." Edited by Edward M. Riley. William and Mary Quarterly, 3d Ser., 5 (July 1948), pp. 375-395.

Urwin, Gregory J. W. "Cornwallis in Virginia: A Reappraisal." Military Collector and Historian, 37 (Fall 1985), pp. 111-126.

Wallace, Lee A., Jr. "The Battery at Hood's." Virginia Cavalcade, 23 (Summer 1973), pp. 38-47.

Wayne, Anthony. "Anthony Wayne at Green Spring, 1781: His Account of the Action." Magazine of American History, 15 (February 1886), pp. 201-202.

Wingo, Elizabeth B. The Battle of Great Bridge. Chesapeake, Va.: Norfolk County Historical Society of Chesapeake, 1964.

Wright, John W. "Notes on the Siege of Yorktown in 1781 with Special Reference to the Conduct of a Siege in the Eighteenth Century." William and Mary Quarterly, 2d Ser., 12 (October 1932), pp. 229-249.

Wylie, John Cook. "Writings About Jack Jouette and Tarleton's Raid on Charlottesville in 1781." Magazine of Albemarle County History, 17 (1958-1959), pp. 49-56.

-----. "Daniel Boone's Adventures in Charlottesville in 1781: Some Incidents Connected with Tarleton's Raid." Magazine of Albemarle County History, 19 (1960-1961), pp. 5-18.

Zeidler, Jeanne. "'Americans Will Die, Or Be Free': The Battle of Hampton, October 26-27, 1775." Virginia Cavalcade, 25 (Autumn 1975), pp. 86-95.