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General Cornwallis had set up his base at Yorktown, on the inner shores of the Chesapeake Bay.

Well he had expected that his troops could be reinforced from New York by ship but the British had no way in.

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Q: What prevented British ships from sailing down the Atlantic coast to help Cornwallis?
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