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The Franco-American allied forces decisively defeated the British at Yorktown in 1781, the last major battle of the war.
At the Battle of Yorktown.
The siege of Yorktown led the British forces to surrender to the american and french forces in the american revolutionary war.
The Siege of Yorktown, Battle of Yorktown, or Surrender of Yorktown in 1781 was a decisive victory by a combined assault of American forces led by General General George Washington and French forces led by the Comte de Rochambeau over a British Army commanded by Lieutenant General Lord Cornwallis.
Cornwallis and his forces were on a peninsula at Yorktown.
Americans and french won the battle of Yorktown
British General Lord Cornwallis surrendered his forces to George Washington in Yorktown in 1781. Yorktown is located in Virginia.
Yorktown was the final battle between the colonists and the British. The British lost at Yorktown and were forced to flee the land giving the colonists their independence
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At Yorktown. The British navy had been stalled by the French navy, and the British were trapped. After some fighting, Cornwallis, the British general, surrendered.
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.
The Battle of Yorktown (or Siege of Yorktown) was the last major land battle of the American War Of Independence. The combinded American forces of General George Washington and French forces of General Comte de Rochambeau were victorious over British forces led by General Lord Cornwallis. The defeat prompted the British government to negotiate an end to the conflict.