the battle of yorktown, lord cornwallace surrendered. in 1783
British surrender at Yorktown Virginia was the last major event,
October 19, 1781 - Last major battle of the Revolutionary War. American troops under George Washington, British troops under Charles Cornwallis Cornwallis was forced to surrender.
Yorktown surrender.
During the American Revolutionary War, the action that finally convinced the British to negotiate for a final peace with the Americans was a major battle -- in fact, a victory for the Americans. This victory came at Yorktown (Virginia) in 1781, where a combined American and French force surrounded and exacted the surrender of a British army led by Lord Cornwallis.
The first major battle was the battle at Concord and Lexington
The Battle of York Town
British surrender at Yorktown Virginia was the last major event,
The colonists did not surrender Yorktown. They captured it in the last major battle of the Revolutionary War.
General Cornwallis was the British general that surrendered to the Patriot general, George Washington. That was the last major battle of the Revolutionary War.
The Battle of Yorktown proved to be the last major land battle of the American Revolutionary War in North America, as the surrender of Cornwallis' army prompted the British government eventually to negotiate an end to the conflict.
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.
The biggest battle in the Revolutionary war is Richmond, because we got the largest British army in the continental United States to surrender and the biggest general to surrender also.The biggest battle in the Revolutionary war was the Battle of Long Island (1776). The British army outnumbered the Colonials 2 to 1 (20,000 vs. 10,000). It was just a month after the Declaration of Independence. The battle was also the first major battle of the war. It was this battle that made the Colonials realize that large scale battles against the much better trained and equipped British was a bad idea.
The battle of Yorktown. The Americans and French defeated the British
October 19, 1781 - Last major battle of the Revolutionary War. American troops under George Washington, British troops under Charles Cornwallis Cornwallis was forced to surrender.
Yorktown surrender.
The British army, under the command of Lieutenant General Lord Cornwallis, surrendered at Yorktown, Virginia, on October 19, 1781.
It was the battle of Vicksburg.