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it was important because it gave freedom and independence to the americans.

Obviously, but there is more to it than that. It was the beginning of something crucial to what everything is now. Because of the events leading up to the battle at Yorktown, we managed to defeat our opposser and get our hands on what we've wanted this whole time; freedom and independence. But not only to the American's did the spoils go. Many people openly benefited from this exchange, such as the French.

Because they stuck with the Americans during the hardships of the battle at Trenton, and generously gave them the idea to cut down bridges and tree's in hopes to "corner" them, they got themselves respectable allies and made the turning point in the Revolutionary war possible.

During the Battle @ Yorktown, the patriots traveled over 200 miles in fifteen day's. They met General Cornwallis and the British troops in Virginia. Three sets of troops were used to close in on the redcoats. The British were confused, low on supplies, and many were sick. The Americans trapped Cornwallis on the peninsula, which meant they were cornered on three sides by water and another by angry Patriots, with no where to go. This also was mainly due to the French fleet that arrived six hours before the British fleet, blocking their only escape route at the time. Cornwallis surrender's, and, tada, the war is over. The U.S.A gained the Treaty of Paris, land from the Atlantic Ocean to the Mississippi River and from Canada to Florida. A part from this, the Redcoats were forced to leave.

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What was the importance of the battle of Yorktown?

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What battle marked the end of the Revolutionary War?

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Where did the last major battle of the revolutionary war take place?

The last battle, major one too, was at Yorktown, 1781 A combination of American & French troops surrounded the forces of British general Cornwallis at Yorktown, Virginia, and forced the British surrender. Yorktown was a peninsula and the French fleet prevented Cornwallis to escape, as the British fleet from New York was too late for a rescue operation.


The british were defeated when Charles Cornwallis surrendered at the?

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