THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1775 1783
THE BATTLE OF YORKTOWN
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Cornwallis, on the other hand, was ready to make due with whatever resources were available to him, including loyalists.
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The southern strategy had called for advancing by careful steps, which was ill-fitting to Cornwallis’s temperament.
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He did not bother to update Clinton on his intentions until after he marched his exhausted force from Guilford Court House to the North Carolina coast.
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From his correspondence, he seemed to be looking for a climactic, set-piece, winner-take-all battle with the American rebels.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Cornwallis Code, (1793), the enactment by which Lord Cornwallis, governor-general of India, gave legal form to the complex of measures that constituted the administrative framework in British India known as the Cornwallis, or Bengal, system.
Detailed explanation-2: -Who was Lord Cornwallis? Lord Cornwallis was a British army officer, administrator and diplomat who had previously served his country during the War of American Independence. He had surrendered along with his troops to the Americans at Yorktown.
Detailed explanation-3: -Cornwallis held commands in the colonies throughout the duration of the war and was frequently George Washington’s battlefield counterpart. He is best known for his surrender at the Siege of Yorktown in 1781, which effectively ended hostilities and led to peace negotiations between Britain and America.