General Cornwallis joined forces with chief officer Henry Clinton in Virginia. Cornwallis and Clinton had a poor relationship with problems in communication. Clinton ordered him to secure a port in Virginia resulting in the entrapment of his troops at Yorktown, and a forced surrender. For years afterward, Clinton and Cornwallis engaged in a war of words, each blaming the other for the failure.
Cornwallis and his forces were on a peninsula at Yorktown.
The answer is General Cornwallis .
The answer is General Cornwallis .
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The General Lord Charles Cornwallis.
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The General in command of the of the British forces in the South was General Cornwallis
Lord Cornwallis took over command of British forces in the Southern colonies in 1780. It was his forces that surrendered to George Washington essentially ending the War of Independence.
Washington defeated Cornwallis at Concord on April 19, 1781
The surrender was to George Washington but Cornwallis did not attend claiming he was ill.