Who led an attack to capture key brittish defenses

After initial preparations, the Americans and French built their first parallel and began the bombardment. With the British defense weakened, on October 14, 1781, Washington sent two columns to attack the last major remaining British outer defenses.

Date: October 19, 1781

Locations: Yorktown, Virginia

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