Essay On French General Comte De Rochambeau

Yorktown Yorktown In a dramatic turnaround of luck that may mark the end of fighting in the American colonies, Lord Charles Cornwallis today signed orders surrendering his British Army to a combined French and American force outside the Virginia tobacco harbor of Yorktown. Charles O’Hara, Cornwallis’ second-in-command, attempted to give Cornwallis’ sword to French general.