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Why was Cornwallis’s choice of making a stand at Yorktown on the peninsula on the Chesapeake Bay was a good one as well as a poor one

Why was Cornwallis’s choice of making a stand at Yorktown on the peninsula on the Chesapeake Bay was a good one as well as a poor one
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why was Cornwallis’s choice of making a stand at Yorktown on the peninsula on the Chesapeake Bay was a good one as well as a poor one

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because he thought the British navy was coming to his aid
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