There were nearly seventeen thousand Allied troops at Yorktown of whom three thousand were militia of Virginia.

The British force under Cornwallis numbered less than eight thousand men.
Months were required before the truce between the two belligerents resulted in peace.

But the people of America hailed the news of Yorktown as the end of the war.

They had hardly admitted to themselves the gravity of the task while the war lasted, and being now relieved of immediate danger, they gave themselves up to surprising insouciance.

A few among them who thought deeply, Washington above all, feared that the British might indulge in some surprise which they would find it hard to repel.
But the American Revolution was indeed ended, and the American Colonies of 1775 were indeed independent and free.