THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1775 1783
AMERICAN REVOLUTION SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC IMPACT
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it was there that the “shot heard ‘round the world” was fired.
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the British Army surrendered after being surrounded.
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it marked the only time Washington was ever defeated in battle.
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the British victory there succeeded in dividing George Washington’s Colonial Army into two parts.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Virginia | Sep 28-Oct 19, 1781. The Battle of Yorktown proved to be the decisive engagement of the American Revolution. The British surrender forecast the end of British rule in the colonies and the birth of a new nation-the United States of America.
Detailed explanation-2: -The port of Yorktown, which remains the seat of government, was the site of the final battle of the American Revolution where on October 19, 1781, Lord Cornwallis surrendered his British Army to the combined American-French forces under Washington and Rochambeau.
Detailed explanation-3: -After two days of negotiation, the surrender ceremony occurred on October 19; Cornwallis was absent from the ceremony. With the capture of more than 7, 000 British soldiers, negotiations between the United States and Great Britain began, resulting in the Treaty of Paris of 1783.
Detailed explanation-4: -Hopelessly trapped at Yorktown, Virginia, British General Lord Cornwallis surrenders 8, 000 British soldiers and seamen to a larger Franco-American force, effectively bringing an end to the American Revolution.
Detailed explanation-5: -On 17 October 1781 British General Lord Cornwallis’ army officially surrendered to a Franco-American army at Yorktown. After years of war and changing fortunes the capitulation of the British marked a decisive turning point, and Yorktown was to be the last major battle of the American War of Independence.