Yorktown order of battle

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The following units and commanders of the British, American, and French armies fought in the Siege of Yorktown of the American Revolution.

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[edit] British Army

Lt. Gen. Charles, Earl Cornwallis, commanding

Headquarters

Staff
17th Light Dragoons
Marines

Artillery

Royal Regiment of Artillery
(plus detachments of sailors manning guns from scuttled ships

British Infantry

Brigade of Foot Guards
Brig. Gen. Charles O'Hara

Two battalions

Light Infantry Brigade
Lt. Col. Robert Abercrombie, 38th Foot

1st Battalion
(Light companies from the 4th, 15th, 17th, 23rd, 27th, 33rd, and 38th Foot)
2nd Battalion
(Light companies from the 37th, 40th, 43rd, 45th, 49th, 55th, 63rd, and 71st Foot)
82nd Foot

1st Brigade
Lt. Col. John Yorke, 22nd Foot

17th Foot
23rd Foot
33rd Foot
71st Foot, 2nd Battalion

2nd Brigade
Lt. Col. Thomas Dundas, 80th Foot

43rd Foot
76th Foot
80th Foot

[edit] German Infantry

Anspach-Bayreuth Contingent
Col. August von Voigt

1st Regiment
2nd Regiment
Artillery company

Hesse-Kassel Contingent
Lt. Col. Matthew von Fuchs

Erb Prinz (Prince Hereditaire) Regiment
von Bose Regiment
Jaeger Company
Artillery Company

[edit] Loyalists

Queen's Rangers
British Legion
North Carolina Volunteers
Detachments
Pioneers

[edit] American army

Gen. George Washington, commanding

Headquarters

4th Continental Light Dragoons
Armand's Legion

Artillery
Brig. Gen. Henry Knox

1st Continental Artillery (1 company)
2nd Continental Artillery (9 companies)
4th Continental Artillery (3 companies)
Sappers and miners (4 companies)

Infantry

Light Division
Maj. Gen. Marquis de Lafayette

1st Brigade
Brig. Gen. Peter Muhlenberg
Col. Vose’s Battalion
(8 Massachusetts light companies)
Lt. Col. Gimat’s Battalion
(5 Connecticut, 2 Massachusetts, and 1 Rhode Island light companies)
Lt. Col. Barber’s Battalion
(2 New Hampshire, 2 New Jersey, and 1 Canadian light companies and 3 New Jersey line companies)
2nd Brigade
Brig. Gen. Moses Hazen
Lt. Col. Scammell’s Battalion
(2 New Hampshire, 3 Massachusetts, and 3 Connecticut light companies)
Lt. Col. Hamilton’s Battalion
(2 New York light companies and 2 New York 2 Connecticut provisional light companies)
Hazen’s Canadian Regiment

2nd Division
Maj. Gen. Benjamin Lincoln

1st Brigade
Brig. Gen. James Clinton
1st New York
2nd New York
2nd Brigade
Col. Elias Dayton
1st New Jersey
2nd New Jersey
Rhode Island Regiment

3rd Division
Maj. Gen. Baron von Steuben

1st Brigade
Brig. Gen. Anthony Wayne
1st Pennsylvania Battalion
2nd Pennsylvania Battalion
3rd Virginia
2nd Brigade
Brig. Gen. Mordecai Gist
3rd Maryland
4th Maryland

Virginia Militia
General Thomas Nelson

1st Brigade
Brig. Gen. George Weedon
2nd Brigade
Brig. Gen. Robert Lawson
3rd Brigade
Brig. Gen. Edward Stevens
Dabney’s State Legion

[edit] French Army

Lt. Gen. Comte de Rochambeau, commanding

Artillery
Lt. Col. Comte d’Aboville

Auxonne Regiment
Metz Regiment

Infantry
Maj. Gen. Baron de Viomenil’s Division

Brigade Bourbonnois
Col. Marquis de Laval
Bourbonnois Regiment
Royal Deux-Ponts Regiment

Maj. Gen. Vicomte de Viomenil’s Division

Brigade Soissonois
Col. Marquis de St. Maime
Soissonois Regiment (2 battalions)
Saintonge Regiment (2 battalions)

Maj. Gen. Marquis de St. Simon’s Division

Brigade Agenois
Col. Marquis d’Audechamp
Agenois Regiment (2 battalions)
Gatinois Regiment
Brigade Touraine
Col. Vicomte de Pondeux
Touraine Regiment (2 battalions)

Detachment at Gloucester
Brig. Gen. Marquis de Choisy

Marines
Lauzun's Legion
(2 squadrons of hussars from the compagnie generale and 2 eme Legion, 4 companies of infantry and detachment of gunners, 2 eme Legion)

[edit] Source

Morrissey, Brendan. Yorktown 1781: The World Turned Upside Down. Oxford, United Kingdom: Osprey Military, 1999. ISBN 1-85532-688-4