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General Cornwallis, Charles Cornwallis, was a British general who was surrounded by French troops and had to surrender which ended the American Revolution.
General Cornwallis' army surrendered at Yorktown, Virginia in 1781, but Cornwallis himself was not there to surrender to General George Washington.
Benedict Arnold was a general in the American Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. In September of 1780, his plan to surrender West Point, New York was exposed, and he defected to the British Army.