The British fail at Yorktown

The surrender at Yorktown was a MASSIVE fail for the British. General Charles Cornwallis retreated to Yorktown after the battle at the Guilford Courthouse. It allowed him to be EASILY surrounded and owned, because Yorktown was a peninsula that could be surroundeed and taken with ease.

In September 1781 16,000 French and American troops and 36 French warships attacked Cornwallis and over 7,500 British and Hessian troops at Yorktown. Basically the Americans went all out on DESTROYING the British in this battle.The battle lasted ten days before the British surrendered. FAIL!