british army was GENRAL cORNWALLIS AND AMERICA WAS gENRAL ROCHAMBEAU
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Lord Cornwallis surrendered British forces on October 19, 1781 at Yorktown, VA
The General Lord Charles Cornwallis.
No- in fact, he led Spanish forces against the British during America's Revolutionary War. His forces defeated British forces in the Siege of Pensacola in 1781. The city of Galveston, Texas is named after him, and he is one of only eight people in history to have been awarded United States citizenship.
British forces conceded that the battle was lost to the American forces on October 17, 1781. On October 19, 1781, the formal ceremony of surrender took place at Yorktown, Virginia.
Fighting ended in 1781 when the commander of the British forces, Lord Cornwallis, surrendered to General George Washington at Yorktown. The Treaty of Paris was signed in 1783, officially ending the Revolutionary War.
During the American Revolution, the most important surrender by British troops took place in Yorktown, Virginia, in 1781. There, with the help of French troops and naval forces, it was General George Washington who received the surrender of a British force, led by Lord Cornwallis, that had been surrounded, blockaded, and then finally defeated.
The Battle of York Town
America was part of the British Empire for 174 years, between the early 1600s and 1781.
The British surrendered at Yorktown in 1781
England surrendered it's forces in America after their defeat at the Battle of Yorktown VA on October 19, 1781.