The Battle of Green Spring took place near Green Spring Plantation in James City County, Virginia during the American Revolutionary War. On July 6, 1781 United States Brigadier General "Mad" Anthony Wayne, leading the advance forces of the Marquis de Lafayette, was ambushed near the plantation by the British army of Earl Charles Cornwallis in the last major land battle of the Virginia campaign prior to the Siege of Yorktown.
Brigadier General Anthony Wayne, 18th-century engraving
Marquis de Lafayette, portrait by John Opie
Earl Cornwallis, detail of painting by Thomas Gainsborough
Green Spring Plantation in James City County about five miles (8.0 km) west of Williamsburg, was the 17th century plantation of one of the most unpopular governors of Colonial Virginia in North America, Sir William Berkeley, and his wife, Frances Culpeper Berkeley.
Remains of ancillary jail structure at Green Spring Plantation site
Green Spring site is at western edge of Colonial Virginia's Historic Triangle near Jamestown and Williamsburg