USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The success of the French fleet in gaining control of the Chesapeake Bay prevented Cornwallis from receiving reinforcements and helped ensure that Washington could use the bay to transport troops and supplies to Yorktown.

Detailed explanation-2: -Without the French navy, Washington could not pull off another Yorktown-and without the French navy, Yorktown itself may not have been the important British defeat that it was. Cornwallis would probably have held out until reinforcements sent by Clinton obliged Washington to lift the siege.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Siege of Yorktown ended the fighting in the American Revolution. During the siege, American and French forces, on land and at sea, trapped a major British army on a peninsula (a piece of land surrounded by water on three sides) at Yorktown, Virginia. The siege forced the British army to surrender.

Detailed explanation-4: -The French commander was a respected officer named Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau. The 450 officers and 5, 300 men of Rochambeau’s Expeditionary Forces landed off the coast of Rhode Island in July 1780.