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The battle started off the Chesapeake with a naval battle between the French and British navies. The French defeated the British and then blocked off the port at Yorktown where the British troops were going to be picked up by their British ships. When the British got there and could not leave because their ships were not there and the American and French armies surrounded the British army and they were forced to surrender at Yorktown, Virginia in 1781. This was the last major battle of the Revolutionary War and after this battle the peace negotiations began.