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Yorktown
The endgame to the American Revolution against the British Empire was the Battle of Yorktown. The Articles of Capitulation marking the surrender of the British was concluded after the battle in 1791.
General Cornwallis, Charles Cornwallis, was a British general who was surrounded by French troops and had to surrender which ended the American Revolution.
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British General Lord Cornwallis surrendered his forces to George Washington in Yorktown in 1781. Yorktown is located in Virginia.
Yorktown
The American Revolutionary War was ended when British troops in Yorktown surrendered to American forces. The British were also blockaded by the French war fleet. The Peace treaty of Paris officially ended the war as Great Britain recognized the new American nation.
The American Revolution began in 1775 with the Battles of Lexington and Concord and ended with the Treaty of Paris of 1783. However, fighting ceased with the 1781 surrender of Cornwallis after the Battle of Yorktown.
It effectively ended in 1781 in Yorktown, Virginia after George Washington forced General Cornwallis to surrender after the battle there. But the Revolutionary War didn't officially end until the Treaty of Paris of 1783.The fighting in America ended after the British surrender at Yorktown. The formal treaty aknowledging the Independence of the United States was signed on September 3,1783.
On the battlefield, the American Revolutionary War was for all practical purposes ended by the surrender of General Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown in October of 1781. Diplomatically the Revolution was completed by the Treaty of Paris in 1783.
From the Battles of Lexington and Concord in 1775, to the Treaty of Paris in 1783, the American Revolution lasted 8 years. However, since the British military campaigns effectively ended with the surrender at Yorktown (October 19, 1781), the actual war lasted for 6 and a half years.