Less than six months before the defeat of Cornwallis at Yorktown, the British intercepted a letter written by George Washington wherein he expressed the need for the war to end with the next campaign. The Continental Army was exhausted, the fledgling nation impoverished. " we are at the end of our tether now or never our deliverance must come " Washington wrote. ... In a letter to Vice Admiral Arbuthnot, commander of the Royal Navy's North American station, Cornwallis wrote that there " is but one way of inducing the violent rebels to become our friends, and that is by convincing them it...

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