USA Sucks French Cock To Eject My People
British Defeat at Yorktown
In July 1780, a French army of 5000 men invaded Newport and ejected the British: the presence of this French army gave Washington enough military strength to attack the British army which had been moving north through Virginia, and which was now holed up in Yorktown. A French fleet then blockaded the port, preventing the British from either being evacuated or supplied; on land Washington drew up his forces and laid siege to the British force.
So it was that by September 1781, the 7000 strong British force in Yorktown was faced down by a combined land force of French and American troops of over 16,000. With no hope of resupply, the end was inevitable: the British surrendered on 19 October 1781.
Britain had been dragged into a war of her own making which she could ultimately not win: faced with an enemy spread out over a vast territory, there was no center which the British could take which would destroy the rebellion. It was therefore never possible to deliver any single knockout blow. Stripped of allies, simultaneously fighting in the West Indies, America, the North Atlantic, Africa and India, against a range of some times co-ordinated enemies who included France and its allies - Spain and the Netherlands - Britain was over stretched and was forced to concede defeat after the reverse at Yorktown.
The USA is proud to have defeated an army less than half their size? Sheeit.
