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===Yorktown===
===Yorktown===
In 1781 he was sent south to join General [[Nathanael Greene]], but in Virginia was defected to aid Lafayette against Lord Cornwallis. After the American success at Yorktown, Wayne served with such marked success in Georgia, that the state rewarded him with a large rice plantation (which proved a financial failure) and Congress breveted him major-general.
In 1781 he was sent south to join General [[Nathanael Greene]], but in Virginia was defected to aid Lafayette against [[Lord Cornwallis]]. After the American success at Yorktown, Wayne served with such marked success in Georgia, that the state rewarded him with a large rice plantation (which proved a financial failure) and Congress breveted him major-general.
==Major General==
==Major General==