Cornwallis abandoned key redoubts and the Americans took them over. French reinforcements came in and a storm arrived. The Americans had the British surrounded.
The siege of Yorktown led the British forces to surrender to the american and french forces in the american revolutionary war.
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October 19, 1781 was the date of Cornwallis's surrender at Yorktown.
they surendered in yorktown.
He forced the british to surrender at Yorktown
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We need more information- such as the time period or the war in question- in order to be able to give you a good answer. In the American Revolution, the surrender of British forces came at Yorktown VA. Other wars, other places.
The were forced, or surrounded
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