THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1775 1783
THE BATTLE OF YORKTOWN
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8, 000
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10, 000
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250
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2000
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Detailed explanation-1: -On October 19, 1781, British General Charles Cornwallis surrendered his army of some 8, 000 men to General George Washington at Yorktown, giving up any chance of winning the Revolutionary War.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -Although not a single British soldier was left on the Dunkirk beaches, some 70, 000 troops were left behind in France, either dead, wounded, prisoner or still stuck further south. The British also left behind 76, 000 tons of ammunition, 400, 000 tons of supplies and 2, 500 guns.
Detailed explanation-4: -The size of the British Army peaked in June 1945, at 2.9 million men. By the end of the Second World War some three million people had served.
Detailed explanation-5: -After the last rescue boats left Dunkirk harbor on June 4, 1940, the Germans captured some 40, 000 French troops who’d been left behind as well as at least 40, 000 British soldiers in the Dunkirk vicinity.