<span>Huguenots were Calvin's followers in France</span>
When the British retired to New York leaving control of the Chesapeake Bay in the hands of the French, General Cornwallis found his troops without provisions and with the American and French armies besieging them. After three weeks of being besieged by the Americans and the French, and after failing to flee the York River, the general and his troops had to surrender on October 19, 1781. The Battle of Yorktown was the the last major battle during the Revolutionary War, with which General Cornwallis went down in history as the general who lost the American Colonies.
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By changing their war-goals from “quelling the rebellion” to “quelling the rebellion and also ending slavery,” the Emancipation Proclamation gave the Union the moral high ground, an increase in relations with European powers, and a potentially large new segment of manpower ripe for recruitment.
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