It was September 1781. General George Washington had been chasing British General Lord Cornwallis for months across the southern colonies. Cornwallis had made a fatal decision: he marched his 8,000 British troops to Yorktown, Virginia, a small port town on the Chesapeake Bay, expecting the Royal Navy to resupply and evacuate him.
But autumn had other plans.
Cornwallis waited for the Royal Navy. It never came. After three weeks of bombardment—and with his supplies gone and no rescue on the horizon—he surrendered on October 19, 1781. weather seasons in america
Most people think the harsh winter at Valley Forge was the low point of the American Revolutionary War. But few know about the strange, deadly autumn that came before it—and how a bizarre weather event in Virginia turned the tide. It was September 1781
Here’s an interesting story about how an American season changed the course of history in an unexpected way. But autumn had other plans