THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1775 1783
THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE TEXT SIGNERS AND LEGACY
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Question
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Bad weather in the Chesapeake Bay
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The Patriots prevented the British from communicating with their navy
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The French fleet blocked the coast and they were surrounded on land
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Cornwallis didn’t believe he needed reinforcements
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Detailed explanation-1: -Washington realized that it was time to act. He ordered Marquis de Lafayette and an American army of 5, 000 troops to block Cornwallis’ escape from Yorktown by land while the French naval fleet blocked the British escape by sea.
Detailed explanation-2: -The British Army was now surrounded at Yorktown. They were greatly outnumbered by the French and American troops. For eleven days the American forces bombarded the British. Finally Cornwallis sent out the white flag for surrender.
Detailed explanation-3: -Cornwallis had his men construct a main line of defense around Yorktown that consisted of ten small enclosed forts (called redoubts), batteries with artillery and connecting trenches.
Detailed explanation-4: -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.