CLEP US History I

Answer: C - Disease was not a significant factor at the Battle of Yorktown. British General Clinton had decided that the Southern campaign was going well enough for the half of the British army to return to New York, leaving General Cornwallis with his half of the army in the South. The Marquis de Lafayette suggested the Americans take advantage of his isolation, so Washington sent troops South, where Cornwallis was holed up waiting for supplies. The Southern militia had worn down is army in a series of guerilla attacks and skirmishes. The fact that the French fleet arrived at Yorktown before the British aided an American victory.