where was the battle of appomattox located?
Appomattox Court House
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 When the battle was joined , the outnumbered militia provided remarkably stiff resistance to the British advance , and executed a disciplined retreat across the Appomattox River , avoiding a flanking attempt led by John Graves Simcoe . They eventually retreated to Richmond , where they joined forces with Continental Army troops led by the Marquis de Lafayette . The British continued raiding , and eventually joined forces with Charles Cornwallis 's army from North Carolina . 

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 The siege began on April 19 after the Battles of Lexington and Concord , when the militia from surrounding Massachusetts communities blocked land access to Boston . The Continental Congress formed the Continental Army from the militia , with George Washington as its Commander in Chief . In June 1775 , the British seized Bunker and Breed 's Hills , but their casualties were heavy and their gains were insufficient to break the Continental Army 's hold on land access to Boston . Military actions during the remainder of the siege were limited to occasional raids , minor skirmishes , and sniper fire . 

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 The campaign involved land and naval forces of Great Britain and France , and land forces of the United States . British forces sent to Virginia between January and April 1781 joined with Cornwallis 's army in May , which came north from an extended campaign through the southern states . These forces were first opposed weakly by Virginia militia , but General George Washington sent first the Marquis de Lafayette and then Anthony Wayne with Continental Army troops to oppose the raiding and economic havoc the British were wreaking . The combined American forces , however , were insufficient in number to oppose the combined British forces , and it was only after a series of controversially confusing orders by General Sir Henry Clinton , the British commander @-@ in @-@ chief , that Cornwallis moved to Yorktown in July and built a defensive position that was strong against the land forces he then faced , but was vulnerable to naval blockade and siege . 

entailment
 After this defeat , most of Washington 's army was chased across New Jersey and into Pennsylvania , and the British consolidated their control of New York and eastern New Jersey . 

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 The Battle of Antietam / ænˈtiːtəm / , also known as the Battle of Sharpsburg , particularly in the South , fought on September 17 , 1862 , near Sharpsburg , Maryland and Antietam Creek as part of the Maryland Campaign , was the first major battle in the American Civil War to take place on Union soil . It is the bloodiest single @-@ day battle in American history , with a combined tally of 22 @,@ 717 dead , wounded , or missing . 
