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Battle of Yorktown By: Nora 

The Battle of Yorktown was the last major battle in the Revolutionary War. The Americans had strategies such as trying to attack the British in New York and trap General Cornwallis in Virgina. Along the way, both sides had many soldiers were very ill with malaria or with other illnesses. In September 1781 General Cornwallis new he was in trouble.

A combined French and American forces of about eighteen thousand soldiers surrounded General Cornwallis at Yorktown. The soldiers slowly and steady trapped the British soldiers. General Cornwallis made a desperate attempt to ferry his forces across the York River to safety on the night of October sixteenth. But a storm drove them back. That was the last big battle of the Revolutionary War.