Editing Siege of Yorktown (section)

===Effect of disease===
[[Malaria]] was endemic in the marshlands of eastern Virginia during the time, and Cornwallis's army suffered greatly from the disease; he estimated during the surrender that half of his army was unable to fight as a result. The Continental Army enjoyed an advantage, in that most of their members had grown up with malaria, and hence had acquired resistance to the disease. As malaria has a month-long incubation period, most of the French soldiers had not begun to exhibit symptoms before the surrender.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/18/AR2010101803877.html |newspaper=The Washington Post |first=J. R. |last=McNeill |title=Malarial mosquitoes helped defeat British in battle that ended Revolutionary War |date=October 18, 2010 |access-date=October 31, 2017 |archive-date=November 11, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121111132640/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/18/AR2010101803877.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>Mann, Charles C. ''1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created''. Knopf: 2011 {{ISBN?}}{{page needed|date=October 2022}}</ref>