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The fourth volume in this distinguished series is a documentary
chronicle of the 1781 campaign that culminated in the October
surrender of Cornwallis and his army to the joint American and
French forces at Yorktown. As leader of the American troops in
Virginia from April through September 1781, Lafayette played a
major role in planning this campaign; the greatest American victory
of the war was also an outstanding personal triumph. In this volume
Lafayette's correspondents include American military figures such
as Washington, Greene, Steuben, and Wayne; the British commanders
Phillips and Cornwallis; and such civil authorities as Jefferson,
Thomas Nelson, William Davies, and Thomas Sim Lee. Their exchanges
provide a vivid picture, with all the immediacy and authenticity
that only documents can give, of the problems and frustrations of
the campaign, and they draw attention to the specific decisions
that led to the allied containment of the British forces.
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