Yes it was.
Might you be referring to Erwin Rommel in North Africa in 1942 in the third and final battle of El Alamein, 60 miles south of Alexandria? The British General who defeated Rommel was General Montgomery.
General Cornwallis was trapped in Yorktown, Virginia.
General Gage led the British army in the American Revolutionary War. He was defeated.
He was generous in victory, and gave Lee no pretext to send the defeated Confederates into the hills to carry on extended guerrilla warfare out of revenge.
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Yes it was.
Yes he was
Erwin Johannes Eugen Rommel was the general, he was defeated by general Montgomery, a British general, in North Africa
Brigadier General Edward Braddock's forces were not directly involved at Fort Necessity; rather, it was the French and their Native American allies who defeated the British forces there. The British commander at Fort Necessity, Colonel George Washington, was compelled to surrender on July 3, 1754, during the French and Indian War. This surrender marked one of the early conflicts in the war and highlighted the challenges faced by the British in North America.
Might you be referring to Erwin Rommel in North Africa in 1942 in the third and final battle of El Alamein, 60 miles south of Alexandria? The British General who defeated Rommel was General Montgomery.
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.