THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1775 1783
AMERICAN REVOLUTION SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC IMPACT
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The British army under General Clinton captured the port city and took thousands of Patriots prisoner.
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The Continental army under General Gates attacked a stronger British army and suffered the highest casualty rate of the war.
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The Continental army under General Greene secured North and South Carolina by defeating Loyalist militia forces.
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The British army under General Cornwallis surrendered to a combined American and French army in the last major battle of the war.
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Detailed explanation-1: -General Lord Cornwallis surrendering his sword and his army to General George Washington and the Continental and French armies after the final battle of the Revolutionary War on October 19, 1781 in Yorktown, Virginia.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -Cornwallis’ surrender at Yorktown effectively ended the Revolutionary War. Lacking the financial resources to raise a new army, the British government appealed to the Americans for peace. Almost two years later, on September 3, 1783, the signing of the Treaty of Paris brought the war to an end.
Detailed explanation-4: -The British Surrender at Yorktown. America declared its independence in 1776, but it took another five years to win freedom from the British. That day came on October 19, 1781, when the British General Charles Cornwallis surrendered his troops in Yorktown, Virginia.
Detailed explanation-5: -British forces were cut off from their supply lines, and-running out of ammunition, suffering high casualties-Cornwallis attempted to evacuate his troops. The evacuation was thwarted by stormy weather, however. On October 17, Cornwallis was forced to seek a truce and cease-fire to negotiate his army’s surrender.