Question

Why was the Battle of Yorktown such a devastating defeat for the British?

Answer 1

Cornwallis had marched his army into the Virginia port town earlier that summer expecting to meet British ships sent from New York. ... Cornwallis' surrender at Yorktown effectively ended the Revolutionary War. Lacking the financial resources to raise a new army, the British government appealed to the Americans for peace

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Answer 2

The British lost an entire army.

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