Describe the circumstances that led to cornwallis' surrender of the british troops

Cornwallis had driven general George Washingtons patriot forces out of New Jersey in 1776, then led his Recoats in victory over General Horatio Gates and thee Patriots at Camden in South Carolina, in 1780. His subsequent invasion of North Carolina was less successful

The statistics for the eastern war are grim. more than three-million men died in the fighting, more than nine-million men were wounded, and every major country which participated lost its form of government.