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Final Battle: Yorktown
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Final Battle: Yorktown
At first with Loyalist's help Cornwallis was successful in Virginia
- Lafayette used hit-and-run tactics to harm Cornwallis' forces
- Clinton ordered Cornwallis to send half his army to NY to protect it
- Cornwallis ignored the order and went to Yorktown where he thought British ships could give him reinforcement
- De Grasse (French) was blockading British in VA
- Washington quickly and secretly marched his army to Yorktown
- Siege- after severlal weeks Cornwallis surrenders and war ends
- siege - to fight day and night until surrender
- Siege- after severlal weeks Cornwallis surrenders and war ends
- Washington quickly and secretly marched his army to Yorktown
- De Grasse (French) was blockading British in VA
- Cornwallis ignored the order and went to Yorktown where he thought British ships could give him reinforcement
- Clinton ordered Cornwallis to send half his army to NY to protect it
- Lafayette used hit-and-run tactics to harm Cornwallis' forces