Excerpt from The Graves Papers and Other Documents Relating to the Naval Operations of the Yorktown Campaign, July to October, 1781This book deals with a naval campaign, one Of the most notable and momentous in history, for on its outcome, humanly speaking, depended Whether, or no, the Amer ican colonies in revolt should remain a part Of the Brita ish Empire.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.