THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION 1700 1774
THE AMERICAN ENLIGHTENMENT INTELLECTUAL AND SOCIAL REVOLUTION
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the British army surrendered at Yorktown, Virginia in 1781
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the Battle of Saratoga in 1777
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George Washington was elected the first President of the United States
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The Boston Massacre
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Detailed explanation-1: -The defeat at Yorktown caused a change in the British government. Prime Minister Lord North and the Tory party were ousted, and the Whigs, under Rockingham, assumed power. This new government opened negotiations with the American commissioners in Paris.
Detailed explanation-2: -After three weeks of non-stop bombardment, both day and night, from artillery, Cornwallis surrendered to Washington in the field at Yorktown on October 17, 1781, effectively ending the War for Independence.
Detailed explanation-3: -Inability to Efficiently Supply the British Army Cornwallis had stretched his supply lines so thin that anything less than a total victory against Nathanael Greene meant the end of his surge. This left him pinned at Yorktown and surrounded by the French Navy.
Detailed explanation-4: -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. Lord Cornwallis was one of the most capable British generals of the American Revolution.