USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Upon arrival in Virginia, Cornwallis took command of the existing British forces in the region, which had been commanded first by turncoat Benedict Arnold, and then by Major General William Phillips. Phillips, a good friend of Cornwallis, died two days before Cornwallis reached his position at Petersburg.

Detailed explanation-2: -Major General William Howe A Whig who sympathized with the Americans, Howe took over as the commander in chief of the British Army in 1776.

Detailed explanation-3: -John Burgoyne, (born 1722, Sutton, Bedfordshire, England-died June 4, 1792, London), British general, best remembered for his defeat by superior American forces in the Saratoga (New York) campaign of 1777, during the American Revolution.

Detailed explanation-4: -One of the most decisive American battles of the Revolutionary War, Saratoga ended British general John Burgoyne’s attempt to control the Hudson River Valley.