In 1781, after six years of fighting, the American Revolution came to a dramatic conclusion.

One of the two major British armies in the conflict found themselves trapped on a peninsula near Yorktown, Virginia.

A combination of American and French forces laid siege to the British at Yorktown in what turned out to be the war's final battle.

Learn more about the Battle of Yorktown and how cliched American independence on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

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