THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1775 1783
THE BATTLE OF YORKTOWN
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he was supplied by land and sea.
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he thought the British was hopeless to win the war.
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so the other navies wouldn’t get passed them.
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because he was emberrased
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Detailed explanation-1: -Cornwallis was in Yorktown because he had been ordered by Clinton during the summer to provide a protected harbor for the British fleet in the lower Chesapeake Bay. Cornwallis chose Yorktown because of its deep-water harbor on the York River.
Detailed explanation-2: -Surrender at Yorktown 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-3: -The Royal Navy, attempting to sail up the Bay to Cornwallis, is met by French warships at the mouth of the Chesapeake. In this encounter, called the Battle of the Capes, the British fleet is soundly defeated and forced to abandon Cornwallis’s army at Yorktown.