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Why was it a mistake for general Cornwallis to move his troops to Yorktown

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It was a mistake because he had retreated into a peninsula
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It was a mistake for general Cornwallis to move his troops to Yorktown because the American troops were there waiting for him. He later surrendered at Yorktown.
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