The Siege That Never Fell
On October 19, 1781, British General Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown — the moment that effectively ended the American Revolutionary War. But what if the French fleet had left three weeks early, the British escape route stayed open, and Cornwallis never surrendered at all?
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