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Why was Cornwallis forced to surrender in Yorktown?
George washing and his troops trapped Cornwallis's troop on a peninsula in Charleston. They had no way to escape.
With whom did Cornwallis join forces in Virginia?
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.
What happened at the battle of Yorktown during the Revolutionary War?
George Washington and his men surrounded General Cornwallis's men in Yorktown. Too late, Cornwallis discovered that his army was surrounded. Cannons were fired for weeks. Cornwallis ran out of hope and tried to flee by ship, but a fierce storm stopped them and it forced Cornwallis back to Yorktown. On October 17, 1781, Cornwallis sent a runner and a drummer boy with a white flag to surrender to General George Washington, the winner of the Revolutionary War from 1775-1781. Go USA!
General Cornwallis's full name?
Charles Cornwallis.
The date and who won the Battle of The Capes?
September 5, 1781. The French fleet won, preventing the British fleet from resupplying or reinforcing the British army under Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown, through the Capes and on a peninsula extending into Chesapeake Bay. With this failure to relieve Cornwallis, his army was soon forced to surrender.
