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Yorktown was located on I would think Chesapeake bay.
{| |- | Some very poor planning on the part of the British. They mistakenly assumed that they would have full control of the sea. When the French Navy showed up off the coast rather then their own, they found themselves trapped by the Colonial Army. There was little choice but to surrender. |}
Yorktown was on the water on one side, so the British army could not escape the large American/French army that was bombarding them. Rather than let his soldiers die, their commander, Cornwallis, elect to surrender. Cornwallis had pleaded for help from General Clinton's ships up in New York, but Clinton would not hurry for anybody, and so the ships made it to Yorktown a couple of days after Cornwallis had surrendered.
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The battle at Yorktown was a big win towards the end of the war. It was the last major battle. After the victory at Yorktown, the British realized the war was too costly to continue.
Yorktown was located on I would think Chesapeake bay.
{| |- | Some very poor planning on the part of the British. They mistakenly assumed that they would have full control of the sea. When the French Navy showed up off the coast rather then their own, they found themselves trapped by the Colonial Army. There was little choice but to surrender. |}
That would be October 19th 1781.
Yorktown was on the water on one side, so the British army could not escape the large American/French army that was bombarding them. Rather than let his soldiers die, their commander, Cornwallis, elect to surrender. Cornwallis had pleaded for help from General Clinton's ships up in New York, but Clinton would not hurry for anybody, and so the ships made it to Yorktown a couple of days after Cornwallis had surrendered.
To know which of the strategies and interventions would be useful it would be helpful to know what the strategies are. Without knowing this it is hard to say which one would be the most useful.
Information on the Battle of Yorktown can be found on Wikipedia, as well as Ask Jeeves. A local library would also have historical information available.
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To know which of the strategies and interventions would be useful it would be helpful to know what the strategies are. Without knowing this it is hard to say which one would be the most useful.
"I would rather be sick" is correct.
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Britain was unaware that Yorktown would happen. It was a seige of a British-held city in Virginia. When the battle began, General Cornwallis' plan was to keep hold on Yorktwon.
they had no time for the patriots and decided if the guerrilla fighters would help he continental army then they had nothing else to do then fight to the death in Yorktown -Ann Barring New York history specialist