British General Lord Cornwallis surrendered his forces to George Washington in Yorktown in 1781. Yorktown is located in Virginia.
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The British surrendered at Yorktown in 1781.
The British did not surrender. They merely withdrew because the war was not cost-effective. They had other priorities with colonies such as India who were giving them problems.
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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.
In the American Revolution, George Washington was a commander of the colonial army. Cornwallis was a commander of the British army.
Washington, commanding American and French forces, forced Cornwallis to surrender his entire British Army of the South there, effectively ending the Revolution, though years of negotiation followed.