Question

Name the two strategies Cornwallis said he would have rather used at Yorktown.

Answer 1

The correct answer to this open question is the following.

Name the two strategies Cornwallis said he would have rather used at Yorktown. One could have been that he had attacked the enemy in the open field although the Continental Army had more troops. And the other could have been that he had escaped to New York City.

Charles Cornwallis was a renown British General that led the British troops during the actions of the Revolutionary War against the Continental Army that was led by General George Washington. Although he had some early victories in New York, he later lost the Battle of Yorktown.

Answer 2

According to Cornwallis he would have: (1) either endeavored to escape to New-York or (2) would notwithstanding the disparity of numbers have attacked them in the open field. This was what he said in a letter he reported to Sir Henry Clinton when he failed to defend the York and Gloucester posts.