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T3 - 6.5B: Katie Allen, Rachel Blakkolb, Ebony Lonon (Battle at Yorktown)

Times Today The Corner Writers Yorktown, What A Terrible Sight! Just as I thought the British wanted more land from America. But they didn’t think it through by having the idea they could get supplies from sea and no one would cut them off. Well the Americans and many French ships wanted to make sure that they didn’t get the supplies from sea or land. French ships from admiral de Grasse conquer from sea. And Americans from land lead by Washington.

Cornwallis was hoping to conquer more land like he had done earlier that year and didn’t listen to send troops to New York. But he didn’t listen to allies Collins from sea that was going to restock him. So the Americans saw an opening in this thinking and sot out to find British troops and kill them off and then surround them.

Cornwallis moved to conquer Virginia from American soldiers supply routes to south. He was hoping to reach new supplies from British ships in the Atlantic Ocean. General Washington saw an opportunity to trap Cornwallis in the Yorktown peninsula. Clinton one of the allies of Cornwallis, was telling him to send troops by land up to New York so they would have protection against American soldiers. Instead of listening to Clinton he marched all of his troops to Pennsylvania.

Washington and his allies from sea, admiral de Grasse, learned that if they go to Pennsylvania they can get Cornwallis to retreat and then admiral de Grasse would trap them by sea so they would have to surrender their weapons. And so they would have no food to carry them to any other place where they could get food.

By the end of September, more than 16,000 American and French troops laid siege to Cornwallis’s army of less than 8,000. Day after day American and French artillery's pounded the British. For several weeks, Cornwallis held out. Finally, with casualties’ mountaining and his supplies running low, the general decided that the British had to surrender their weapons. The  French and Americans lined up in two columns. As they defeated redcoats, marched between the victorious troops, a British army band then played the tune "the World turned upside down." This is the battle that decided the outcome of The American Revolution.