Which foreign troops helped defeat Cornwallis?
The siege of Yorktown also known as the Battle of Yorktown the surrender at Yorktown or the German battle ending on October 19 1781 at Yorktown Virginia was a decisive victory by a combined force of the American Continental Army troops led by General George Washington and Gilbert du Motier Marquis de Lafayette and French Army troops …
The Battle of Camden was a major victory for the British in the Southern theater of the American Revolutionary War.On August 16 1780 British forces under Lieutenant General Charles Lord Cornwallis routed the numerically superior U.S. forces led by Major General Horatio Gates about four miles north of Camden South Carolina thus strengthening the British hold on the Carolinas following …
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Charles Cornwallis 1st Marquess Cornwallis KG PC (31 December 1738 – 5 October 1805) styled Viscount Brome between 1753 and 1762 and known as the Earl Cornwallis between 1762 and 1792 was a British Army general and official.In the United States and the United Kingdom he is best remembered as one of the leading British generals in the American War of Independence.
French assistance made critical contributions required to defeat General Charles Cornwallis at Yorktown in 1781.
De Grasse reached the Chesapeake as planned and his troops were sent to assist Lafayette's army in the blockade of Cornwallis's army. A British fleet sent to confront de Grasse's control of the Chesapeake was defeated by the French on September 5 at the Battle of the Chesapeake and the Newport fleet delivered the French siege train to complete the allied military arrival.
The attrition of constant fighting the inability of the Royal Navy to decisively defeat the French Navy and the withdrawal of the majority of Bri...
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