Pipe Bowl
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- George Washington sent General Nathanael Greene to slow the British from advancing, but the army was too small to defeat Cornwallis in battle. Greene instead led the British troops on an exhausting chase through the South. He wrote of his strategy, “We fight, get beat, rise, and fight again.”
- General Greene's strategy was a success. Cornwallis said that he was tired of marching around. In April 1781, he mad his way to Yorktown, a tobacco port, on Chesapeake Bay in Virginia, where they built a defense 10 small forts, while some took a rest or smoked a bit.
- As Cornwallis settled into Yorktown, over 5,000 French soldiers were sent to Washington's army in New York. George Washington then moved his army south to Virginia, where they joined they joined forces with the French in surrounding Yorktown on land with more than 16,000 troops.
- Towards the end of the battle, the British warships arrived just in time to shut down Chesapeake Bay. The appearance of the French warships made all the difference in the outcome of the battle, as it cut off Cornwallis from the British navy.
- As the Battle of Yorktown raged around him, Cornwallis held out hope that the British navy would arrive to save him. When no ships arrived, he eventually surrendered.
- On October 19, 1781, American and French troops formed two long lines that stretched along the road to Yorktown—the French on one side and the Americans on the other. After hours of waiting, the crowd watched as 8,000 British troops left Yorktown, moving “with slow and solemn step,” to lay down their arms. Without realizing it, a pipe bowl from one the soldier fell out and got covered in dirt.
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