At the Battle of Yorktown
a. the British won.
b. the British held numerical superiority.
c. Washington’s army was larger than Cornwallis’s.
d. Washington turned near-disaster into victory.
e. Cornwallis refused to cooperate with the nearby British fleet.
ANS: C
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