A self-guided driving tour explores the events, people and key sites of the Battle of the Hook, which took place in lower Gloucester County and was the largest cavalry engagement of the American Revolution and a crucial Franco-American victory. The tour brochure is available at the Gloucester Museum of History and Gloucester Visitor Center, at no cost, and an online version is also available. The Oct. 3, 1781, Battle of the Hook is one of the most important episodes of the siege of Yorktown, when the Duc de Lauzun’s famous Legion of hussars with 300 troops of the “Infanterie de Marine,” and Lieutenant Colonel John Mercer’s Select Battalion of Grenadiers, under the overall command of French Brigadier General Claude de Choisy, defeated Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton’s British Legion and a detachment of the Royal Welch Fusiliers. The fighting at Gloucester helped cut off British escape routes from Yorktown, directly contributing to their surrender 16 days later, on Oct. 19, 1781. Th...