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Hence the setting for his South Carolina announcement: a podium dressed with black POW-MIA flags, with the carrier USS Yorktown as a backdrop.
To Americans, Cornwallis was History (i.e., irrelevant) after Yorktown.
On 12 April 1782, in the sea channel near Guadeloupe’s little off-shore islands of Les Saintes, a British fleet gained historic revenge against French Admiral de Grasse, of Yorktown fame, in a battle that is still talked about today.
...1738-1805, British general in the War of American Independence: commanded forces defeated at Yorktown (1781): defeated Tipu Sahib (1791): governor general of India (1786-93, 1805): negotiated the Treaty of Amiens (1801).
Il capitula à Yorktown pendant la guerre d'Amérique (1781), soumit Tippo-Sahib (1792); vice-roi d'Irlande, il réprima la rébellion de 1798.