Francisco de Saavedra de Sangronis: A Spainard’s Pivotal Role in the Yorktown Triumph - Journal of the American Revolution

Francisco de Saavedra de Sangronis: A Spainard’s Pivotal Role in the Yorktown Triumph - Journal of the American Revolution

Nowhere in the struggle that was the American Revolution was outside assistance more significant than at the siege of Yorktown during the autumn of 1781.[1] The French provided significant support from land troops, but it was the French Navy that really clinched the affair with their naval blockade that ultimately trapped the British army of […] The post Francisco de Saavedra de Sangronis: A Spainard’s Pivotal Role in the Yorktown Triumph appear…