"B2431" wrote in message
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From: "Steven P. McNicoll"
Date: 1/15/2004 12:39 PM Central Standard Time
Message-id: et


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.


The French fleet showing up off Yorktown also seems to have convinced
Cornwallis it was time to cut his losses and quit.

The French left the Battle of the Capes with broken junk.