Americans by flanking around
Significant because now France would join the war on the side of the Americans, not the British
Battle of Yorktown (1781) Washington, de Grasse, Lafayette, and the Comte de Rochambeau plan a 3 prong strategy
General Cornwallis established base at (this location) on a peninsula
French navy block off any naval escape, Washington, Rochambeau and Lafayette attack from the East
Americans win the battle, Cornwallis surrenders
British would give up trying to suppress the rebellion…
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