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General Cornwallis joined forces with chief officer Henry Clinton in Virginia. Cornwallis and Clinton had a poor relationship with problems in communication. Clinton ordered him to secure a port in Virginia resulting in the entrapment of his troops at Yorktown, and a forced surrender. For years afterward, Clinton and Cornwallis engaged in a war of words, each blaming the other for the failure.

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