The French fleet was able to aid General Washington at Yorktown by - Transporting Washington men south to Yorktown from New York

Trapping the British troops at their location

Capturing a British General

Spying on the movements of the British troops

In my own words, colony is a group of people from one country who build a settlement in another territory, or land. They claim the new land for the original country, and the original country keeps some control over the colony. The settlement itself is also called a colony. The practice of setting up colonies is called colonialism.

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