History of the United States I / Unit 6 USH1 0774 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Yorktown
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The idea
Cornwallis moved to Yorktown expecting the Royal Navy to carry him to New York, and a combined French and American force of sixteen thousand closed on him instead.
In practice
Admiral de Grasse sailing into Chesapeake Bay to cut off escape by sea.
Where people slip
The siege lasted eight days and Cornwallis surrendered on October nineteenth, seventeen eighty-one.
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