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General Cornwallis
General Cornwallis, Charles Cornwallis, was a British general who was surrounded by French troops and had to surrender which ended the American Revolution.
French General Jean Baptiste Rochambeau Pennsylvania and Marylander to Virginia and surrounded Cornwallis.
General Cornwallis' army surrendered at Yorktown, Virginia in 1781, but Cornwallis himself was not there to surrender to General George Washington.
George Washington and his men surrounded General Cornwallis's men in Yorktown. Too late, Cornwallis discovered that his army was surrounded. Cannons were fired for weeks. Cornwallis ran out of hope and tried to flee by ship, but a fierce storm stopped them and it forced Cornwallis back to Yorktown. On October 17, 1781, Cornwallis sent a runner and a drummer boy with a white flag to surrender to General George Washington, the winner of the Revolutionary War from 1775-1781. Go USA!
During the Siege of Yorktown, Cornwallis and his men ended up being completely surrounded by U.S. and French troops, both army and navy. Cornwallis had no choice but to surrender. Over 7,000 British troops were captured in the siege.
he tried to escape by taking his soldiers across the york river in boats.
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American and French troops and ships surrounded Yorktown in 1781. British General Charles Cornwallis surrendered on October 19th, bringing an end to the American Revolution.
Cornwallis did, assuming that's the battle your talking about. Nathaniel Greene sent Cornwallis on a chase, because he just kept retreating deeper and deeper into the colonies. Cornwallis was called back, and he ended up in Yorktown, thinking that this was a wise move because he had the coast to his back, and therefore he could only be attacked on one side. But instead he ended up being surrounded by the French Navy and the continental army. Not such a good idea after all.
It was the last battle of the American Revolution and Cornwallis surrendered there. He was surrounded on all three sides by American forces.