On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 10:38:45 -0800, "Tarver Engineering"
wrote:

The French did not win Yorktown, Alan.

That was Green and his 300 iron cannon.

Without that, Washington surrenders at Yorktown, to half the English
fleet.


Without the French fleet in The Battle of the Capes there wouldn't have been
any Battle of Yorktown.