Describe The Differences Between The Americans And British At Yorktown

A Column of British Soldiers marched out on the morning of April 19, 1775 toward the town of Lexington, Massachusetts. A small band of seventy-seven colonial militiamen stood their way. The shot heard around the world occurred in this time period as the outnumbered Americans retreated, thus starting the American War of Independence. Six years later, on October 19, 1781, Lord Charles Cornwallis surrendered his army at Yorktown, Virginia to the joint forces of General George Washington and French General Rochambeau. This paper intends to analyze how the Americans and French with their culture, language and tactical doctrine barriers to overcome manage to move land and naval forces over their opponent to gain the tactical advantage over the British at Yorktown.
General Washington realized American forces have to remained on the defensive and wait for opportunities against the British in order for the revolution to succeed and to avoid destruction. His continental army remained its position in the Hudson Highlands and
On 11 October 1781, General Cornwallis wrote to his superior commander in New York, "The enemy made their first parallel on the night of the 6th at the distance of 600 yards and have perfected it and constructed places of arms and batteries with great regularity and caution. On the evening of the 9th, their batteries opened and have since continued firing without intermission with about 40 pieces of cannon, mostly heavy, and 16 mortars ... many of our works are considerably damaged; with such works on disadvantageous ground against so powerful an attack, we cannot hope to make a very long resistance." (3) Under heavy bombardment from the Allied Army, Cornwallis is realizing that reinforcement would not reach him in time, he surrendered to Washington’s combined American and French forces on October 19,