Anthony Wayne's Potomac Crossing
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On May 31, 1781, Gen. Anthony Wayne and around 1,100 Pennsylvania Continental troops, crossed the Potomac River at Noland's Ferry, losing 4 men to drowning, on their way to reinforce the Marquis de Lafayette in Virginia. They met Lafayette's troops south of the Rapidan River near Charlottesville on June 10th.
Facing Lafayette's and Wayne's combined forces, British General Charles Cornwallis withdrew to Yorktown. He Surrendered October 19th.
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