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Rochambeau was the commander of the French who were on the Americans side, Cornwallis commander of the British and Washington commander of the Americans
60,000 British troops.
To retain the 13 colonies on the Eastern coast of what is now the USA. the British had a war with the Colonies. With the help of the French navy, The British gave up trying to retain them. In other situations, I use the term "battle". The British conducted a battle/war with the Chinese people in SE Asia, which at the time a native Chinese population, called the Opium Wars.
Not only did different people respond in different ways, but people were treated differently also.
They killed a lot of the British people, but they lost the hill, but the colonists didn't care, because they killed A LOT of British people. It was saying that the colonists were tough and weren't going to take what the British were dishing out. They also were not sure if they could win the war and this convinced them they could.