The Return from Yorktown

The Return from Yorktown. The King's Highway. , The British surrender at Yorktown did not end the Revolutionary War. Two years remained of fighting in the southern United States and across the world from the Caribbean to Spain. Meanwhile, a British Army occupied New York City until 1783., Soon after the victorious siege, most of the Continental Army moved back to New York state in November 1781., Part of the French Army remained in Virginia over the winter of 1781-82 to reduce the strain on supplies in hard-hit New Jersey. In July 1782, four infantry regiments, artillery, engineers, and the wagon train in five marching groups returned to Prince William County. The weather was so miserably hot that even veteran troops only marched a little over ten miles per day., When the first French troops reached this area on July 15, they spread their campsites over both sides of Quantico Creek. During the next four days, more than 5,000 men passed through Dumfries on their way to Alexandria. Soon they returned to the New York area where they remained until the end of the war., [Captions:] , Camp at Dumfries , French camp along Quantico Creek in Dumfries. , Courtesy of the Library of Congress, Royal Deux-Ponts , Like the British, the French also had units from other states. The Royal Deux-Ponts Regiment came from what is today Zweibrücken in Germany. , Courtesy of the Musee de l'Armee, Paris, Saintonge , French infantry regiments, like the Saintonge Regiment here, usually wore white. Courtesy of the Musee de l'Armee, Paris