Editing 1781 (section)

=== July&ndash;September ===
* [[July 27]] &ndash; French spy [[François Henri de la Motte]] is [[Hanged, drawn and quartered|hanged and drawn]] before a large crowd at [[Tyburn]], London in England for [[high treason]].
* [[July 29]] &ndash; [[American Revolution]] &ndash; Skirmish at the House in the Horseshoe: A Tory force under [[David Fanning (loyalist)|David Fanning]] attacks Phillip Alston's smaller force of [[Patriot (American Revolution)|Whigs]], at Alston's home in [[Cumberland County, North Carolina]] (in present day [[Moore County, North Carolina]]). Alston's troops surrender, after Fanning's men attempt to ram the house with a cart of burning straw.
* [[August 30]] &ndash; [[American Revolution]]: A French fleet under [[Comte de Grasse]] enters [[Chesapeake Bay]], cutting British General [[Charles Cornwallis]] off from escape by sea.
* [[September 4]] &ndash; [[Los Angeles]] is founded as ''[[Pueblo de Los Ángeles|El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de Los Ángeles de Porciuncula]]'' ("City of Our Lady the Queen of the Angels of Porciuncula"), by a group of 44 Spanish settlers in California.
[[File:BattleOfVirginiaCapes.jpg|thumb|right|[[September 5]]: [[Battle of the Chesapeake]]]]
* [[September 5]] &ndash; [[American Revolution]] &ndash; [[Battle of the Chesapeake]]: A British fleet under [[Thomas Graves, 1st Baron Graves|Thomas Graves]] arrives and fights de Grasse, but is unable to break through to relieve the [[Siege of Yorktown]].
* [[September 6]] &ndash; [[American Revolution]] &ndash; [[Battle of Groton Heights]]: A British force under [[Benedict Arnold]] attacks a fort in [[Groton, Connecticut]], achieving a strategic victory. 
* [[September 8]] &ndash; [[American Revolution]] &ndash; [[Battle of Eutaw Springs]], South Carolina: The war's last significant battle, in the Southern theatre, ends in a narrow British tactical victory.
* [[September 10]] &ndash; [[American Revolution]]: Graves gives up trying to break through the now-reinforced French fleet and returns to New York, leaving Cornwallis to his fate.
* [[September 28]] &ndash; [[American Revolution]]: American and French troops begin a siege of the British at Yorktown, Virginia.