article_snippet.sent: The battle, between British and French fleets, resulted in the last significant British army in the Thirteen Colonies being cut off - and led directly to US independence.
article_snippet.sent: One of the most significant battles of the American War of Independence, the French win led directly to US independence, cutting off, as it did, the last substantial British army in the Thirteen Colonies and obliging the last substantial British army in the Thirteen Colonies to surrender.