Original sentence: According to popular legend, as the British force marched out and surrendered their weapons, the French band played "Yankee Doodle," while the British regimental band responded by playing a song entitled The World Turned Upside Down.De Grasse had defeated Admiral Thomas Graves' fleet in the Battle of the Chesapeake and won control of the river.The Battle of Yorktown (1781) was a victory by a combined American and French force led by General George Washington and the Comte de Rochambeau over a British army commanded by General Lord Charles Cornwallis
Edited sentence: According to popular legend, as the much smaller British force marched out and surrendered their weapons, the French band played "Yankee Doodle," while the British regimental band responded by playing a song entitled The World Turned Upside Down.De Grasse had defeated Admiral Thomas Graves' tiny fleet in the Battle of the Chesapeake and won control of the river.It was later said by historians that the American victory depended on what had previously been thought impossible, a British Naval Defeat at the hands of the French.The Battle of Yorktown (1781) was a victory by a combined American and French force led by General George Washington and the Comte de Rochambeau over a British army commanded by General Lord Charles Cornwallis that was less than half the size