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what was the code word at the battle of yorktown
As Lin-Manuel Miranda writes in “Yorktown,” the American troops did, indeed, storm the fort with bayonets—gunfire would have given away their position—using the code word Rochambeau.
what was the result of the battle of yorktwon
Following the Battle at Yorktown and Cornwallis’s surrender, the British Parliament, in March 1782, passed a resolution calling for the nation to end the war
when did the american revolutionary war officially end
On September 3, 1783, Great Britain formally recognized the independence of the United States in the Treaty of Paris, ending the American Revolutionary War.

Question: Who fought
Self-contained rewrite: Who fought at the battle of yorktown