Question

1. What was Cornwallis's mistake in battle strategy?

2.Why might reaching a peace treaty have taken so long?

Answer 1

1) Cornwallis had no men

2) King George was very stubborn

Answer 2

1. He moved troops to Yorktown, Virginia and Washington was able to trap him there in the Battle of Yorktown.

2. The Treaty of Paris took 2 years to confect because it was hard to convince King George III that America would not sign a peace treaty ending the Revolutionary War until that treaty included American independence from Great Britain.

It also took time to work out a deal that all the allies would approve of - the French, the Spanish, and the Dutch, each of whom had their own national interests.