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At the Siege of Yorktown, Cornwallis expressed that he would have preferred to either reinforce his positions with additional troops or to conduct a strategic retreat to a more defensible location. He believed that these strategies could have potentially altered the outcome of the battle and allowed him to avoid the encirclement by American and French forces. Instead, he was ultimately trapped and forced to surrender, marking a pivotal moment in the American Revolutionary War.

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