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Ebenezer Denny of Pennsylvania was a major in the Continental Army. His journal offers perhaps the best eyewitness account of the capture of British General Cornwallis army at Yorktown, Virginia, in 1781, which was the last major battle of the war.
The American Revolution was won by patience, endurance, and a certain amount of luck. The British were too busy with other interests to long endure the pinpricks of the colonialists, and, as with the battle at Yorktown, help from the French always seemed to arrive (for the revolutionary army) at just the right time.
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