alleryStart learning →News of which American victory led the House of Commons to vote to end the war?
AThe victory at Saratoga
BThe victory at Trenton
CThe victory at Yorktown
DThe victory at Princeton
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: C. The victory at Yorktown
1. French sea power let Washington and Rochambeau move their combined armies down Chesapeake Bay.
2. They penned in the army of Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown on the Virginia coast.
3. When news of that American victory reached Europe, the House of Commons voted to end the war.
4. Saratoga had come four years earlier and brought France in rather than closing the fighting.
_Source: An Outline of American History (U.S. Information Agency, 1990, public domain), section COLONIES GAIN VICTORY AND FREEDOM_
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