Zusammenfassung der Ressource
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