 But there is an irony. With the American conflict over, the British are free to commit the full force of their troops and supplies to battling Haider Ali and his son, the Sultan, back in India. And so, reinforced, in effect, by the American victory, the kingdom of Mysore helped to happen. Mysore itself surrenders to, of all people, the man Americans had beaten at Yorktown, General Cornwallis. And remember, the French and the majority of the soldiers who won for our side at Yorktown were French.