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.
by VA do you mean Virginia? if so, then your answer is: at that time the british thought that they owned Virginia and could grant it to whom they wished.
The original 13 colonies of the United States filed the famous "Declaration of Independence against Britain on July, 4 1776. The backlash resulted in a war for American Independence or "Revolutionary War" which went on for years. British General Cornwallis surrendered his troops at Yorktown, Virginia on October 19, 1781, ending hostilities on American soil. The war did not actually end, resulting in independence until 1783, with the Treaty of Paris. Link below:
There were several British Generals in North Africa. In 1940-43 British forces were commanded successively by Generals Wavell, Auchinleck and Alexander, under the last of whom Gen Montgomery commanded the 8th Army.
sent out thousands of settlers, more than half of whom died shortly.
Virginia was not one of the first states to secede, and many senior Virginians were hoping it wouldn't. One person who hoped it wouldn't was Robert E. Lee, to whom Lincoln had offered the job of General-in-Chief of all the Union armies. But when Virginia seceded, Lee decided he should go with his state, and became the most effective General in the South, or perhaps in all America.
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The Virginia plan favored the people of Virginia.
I believe you are referring to Ulysses Grant. He was a great general, and the Union wanted him to command their troops. However, he decided to go with his native Virginia and became a confederate general.
Virginia Clemm, his cousin whom he married.
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Cicero is the senator whom Brutus refuses to ask to join the conspiracy.
You probably mean Robert E. Lee. He was a regular US officer, whom Lincoln wanted to appoint as an army commander and likely future General-in-Chief. Lee said he would have to wait to see whether his home-state of Virginia voted Confederate - which he hoped it wouldn't, as he disapproved of secession. However, the vote went that way, and Lee resigned to join the Confederates.
You probably mean Robert E. Lee. He was a regular US officer, whom Lincoln wanted to appoint as an army commander and likely future General-in-Chief. Lee said he would have to wait to see whether his home-state of Virginia voted Confederate - which he hoped it wouldn't, as he disapproved of secession. However, the vote went that way, and Lee resigned to join the Confederates.
by VA do you mean Virginia? if so, then your answer is: at that time the british thought that they owned Virginia and could grant it to whom they wished.
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This was, most likely, named, after Elizabeth I, - Queen of England, - sometimes, called the "VIRGIN QUEEN"Virginia was also said to get its name from the first child born in America, Virginia Dare