WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Supported by the French army and navy, Washington’s forces defeated Lord Charles Cornwallis’ veteran army dug in at Yorktown, Virginia. This victory led directly to the peace negotiations that ended the war in 1783.

Detailed explanation-2: -After French assistance helped the Continental Army force the British surrender at Yorktown, Virginia, in 1781, the Americans had effectively won their independence, though fighting would not formally end until 1783.

Detailed explanation-3: -A Stunning Defeat. In October 1781, the war virtually came to an end when General Cornwallis was surrounded and forced to surrender the British position at Yorktown, Virginia. Two years later, the Treaty of Paris made it official: America was independent.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Americans in the Thirteen Colonies formed independent states that defeated the British in the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), gaining independence from the British Crown and establishing the United States as the first nation-state founded on Enlightenment principles of liberal democracy.