General+Cornwallis

General Charles Cornwallis  By : Landon General Charles Cornwallis was the leader of the British troops in American south. In the fall of 1778, General Cornwallis took over Savannah, Georgia, Charleston, South Carolina, and Camden, South Carolina. March 15,1781, the British arrived in North Carolina.The Americans attacked them. Cornwallis lost 532 men. Cornwallis decided to retreat to Yorktown, virgina.

One of George Washingtons French friends told him Genral Cornwallis was in Yorktown.

So Washington and the part of the French army decided to attack Cornwallis and his troops. On August 21, 1781, Washington,and a french leader named Rochambean marched south with 7,000 men.On September 2, De Grasse sailed into Virginas chesapeak bay. The French attacked the British. The French fleet damaged some British ships. The British retreated to New York. General Cornwallis kep t on asking for troops and wepons because Cornwallis did not have soilders to fight. A British fleet sailed south to help Cornwallis and his soilders. It was to late. Genral Cornwallis for a truce. On October 19, 1781 British Genral Cornwallis agreed to surrender his army.Genral Cornwallis ackted like he was sick. But the British did not want to admitt he had lost the war to the Americans.