America's Final Victory - 1781

America's Final Victory, produced by East River Productions -- http://www.eastriverproductions.com -- is the story of Gloucester, Virginia's contribution to the Battle of Yorktown and the British surrender that ended the American Revolution. Gloucester County was the site of the Battle of the Hook, the largest cavalry engagement of the Revolutionary War.

Battle footage for this documentary was captured at the reenactment of the battle held at historic Warner Hall in October of 2008

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[iloveeverything219]

At 1:12 the middle guy has glasses, it didn't existed at that time !!!!

[jarobinsonjr]

@iloveeverything219 actually they are believed to have been invented in 1286!!!!!!!! (and I've got more exclamation points than you!!)

[uafchris]

0:59 worst attempt at a British accent ever

[IamUncledeuce]

The over-the-mountain men were Scots-Irish immigrants who were given land on the outskirts of the colonies, to help quell Indian uprisings. After 40 years of frontier experience, these Scots-Irish where very proficient at Indian tactics and gave the Brits a sound thrashing. It is also noteworthy that these Scots-Irish also had a bitter history that went back to early English conquests of Scotland and what become known as the Ulster Plantation in Northern Ireland. In essence a blood feud.

[cookiemonster9052]

@karezza6 ^ True story

[LiamUe]

@wolffromsteam

holy crap you have no idea what's real. lol

French helped you before 1781.

the Netherlands and Spain never helped you anyway, they just served to distract the British from unleashing Hell upon you.

Vietnam was a defeat. Ho Chi Minh ran over us with his dirty jungle commies; Vietnam is a sad result. But that is from lack of international support for the South.

Not by American failures per se.

[LiamUe]

@USMarineRifleman0311

No.

If there were no French, there wouldn't have been the naval fleet of Warships trapping Cornwallis.

If there was a /British/ fleet there instead, the colonial rebels would've been blown to tiny pieces if they approached the coast

[karezza6]

British killing British. What a tragedy.

[XxMesmerized1LOvEXx]

Best way to study ^_^

[MrAdamcowgill]

@iloveeverything219  benjiman franklin had glasses-_-

[Robineux99]

@gunnuta20

Waterloo? British represented about 20% of the allied forces. And Wellington himself claimed his army was inexperienced, ill-equipped and that his officers sucked balls. Remember that roastbeef.

[Lugotorix94]

@uafchris And compared to the british accent, american accent suck balls.

[USMarineRifleman0311]

@wolffromsteam

Cornwallis was going to entrench himself at Yorktown as it was, French or no French...

Greene's army was still intact in the south. All he had to do was wait for Washington to meet him on the outskirts of Yorktown. The Americans couldve done it themselves.

What they couldnt do was beat the Royal navy in the Chesappeake.