what was geogre washington's plan on defeating general cornwallis?

Question

please tell

Answer 1

Washington wasn't the driving force behind the downfall of Cornwallis. That lucky mantle fell on General Nathaniel Greene and General Daniel Morgan, with help from the likes of Francis Marion and other militia groups.

Basically, the idea of the Southern campaign was to keep Cornwallis bottled up in South Carolina and North Carolina to prevent him from wheeling north through Virginia and Maryland, thus preventing a pincer on Washington (who was currently staring at Henry Clinton in New York City). Morgan and Greene used guerrilla tactics to take out Cornwallis' supply trains and drag him across territory that was unknown to the British in order to tire them out and make them lose their will to fight while they chased in hope of a decisive battle.

By the time Cornwallis got to Yorktown, Washington had hemmed him in after disappearing from outside New York. The American force had help from a French fleet commanded by the Comte de Grasse, who prevented a British fleet from getting to Cornwallis before he could surrender.

Answer 2

well i couldnt tell you for sure what his original plan was, but he ended up backing him into a corner at yorktown with the army blocking his escape by land and the french navy blocking an escape by sea.