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News of the British defeat at Yorktown spread quickly. Celebrations took place throughout the United States. London was shocked. The British prisoners were marched to prison camps in Winchester, Virginia and Frederick, Maryland. The American army returned to the Hudson River, while the French army remained in Yorktown and Williamsburg for the winter. Clinton and Cornwallis eventually returned to England where they engaged in a long and bitter public controversy over who was to blame for the British defeat at Yorktown.

News of the British defeat at Yorktown spread quickly. Celebrations took place throughout the United States. London was shocked. The British prisoners were marched to prison camps in Winchester, Virginia and Frederick, Maryland. The American army returned to the Hudson River, while the French army remained in Yorktown and Williamsburg for the winter. Clinton and Cornwallis eventually returned to England where they engaged in a long and bitter public controversy over who was to blame for the British defeat at Yorktown.

==further reading==

==Further reading==

* Adams, Randolph G. "A View of Cornwallis's Surrender at Yorktown." ''American Historical Review'' 1931 37(1): 25-49. Issn: 0002-8762 [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-8762(193110)37%3A1%3C25%3AAVOCSA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-X online at Jstor]  

* Adams, Randolph G. "A View of Cornwallis's Surrender at Yorktown." ''American Historical Review'' 1931 37(1): 25-49. Issn: 0002-8762 [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-8762(193110)37%3A1%3C25%3AAVOCSA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-X online at Jstor]  

* Greene, Jerome. ''Guns of Independence: The Siege of Yorktown, 1781'' (2005)

* Greene, Jerome. ''Guns of Independence: The Siege of Yorktown, 1781'' (2005)