Question

On October 16 a violent storm prevented Cornwallis’s troops from crossing the York River at night to a peninsula of British land to the north. Most boats were blown back a mile or more below Yorktown. Based on the map, how might the weather have influenced Cornwallis’s decision to finally surrender within days?

Answer 1

Answer:

They were very low on supplies in hopeless conditions and the wind had blown them too the American troops.

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