Today I received word that my husband was fighting in the Battle of Yorktown and had died.I am now a single parent of three.I feel that I should tell you exactly what happened. The war was going awful for us we were low on supplies,money, and man power. By bringing in the foreign countries to help us had not worked as planed. As I had said it was going badly the British had the most of the South, New York, and Philadelphia.It hurt us badly when Benedict Arnold turned on us and began to help the British.We learned the General Cornwallis was taking his troops to Yorktown, Virgina. George Washington decided that it was worth a shot to try to capture them one more time. We happened to be in New York at the time so we blocked the escape of the British.We surrounded them, there was no escape! Then the fighting began it went on for weeks and eventually tired the British. In the mean time my husband was shot in the chest by a British officer. Washington was planning to attack the British while they were weak..........................
Deverell, William, and Deborah Gray. White. United States History: Beginnings to 1877. Orlando, FL: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 2007. Print.
Today, I was told that the last major battle of the war was fought and won by the patriotsTired and angry, General Cornwallis sent a drummer and a soldier with a white flag of surrender to Washington’s camp. The Patriots took . We took eight thousand British troops prisoner. This is great to hear about ,so maybe this awful war will be over
Deverell, William, and Deborah Gray. White. United States History: Beginnings to 1877. Orlando, FL: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 2007. Print.
"Revolutionary War." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation Inc. Web. 17 Nov. 2011. <http://www.wikipedia.com>.
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