The film recounts the pivotal events leading to the British surrender at Yorktown during the American Revolutionary War. It details the strategic maneuvers of British General Cornwallis and the ...

Surrounded by American troops and French warships -- Adams had long fought for a strong naval front -- British General Cornwallis surrendered his huge force of 8,000 men. Great Britain was weary ...

On August 27, 1776, over the crackle of musket fire ... the men continued to surge toward an old stone house occupied by British General Lord Cornwallis and his Redcoats. Thousands of British ...