Washington's Yorktown victory depended entirely on Robert Morris raising 1.4 million personally

What was said

"The army needed food, wagons, horses, gunpowder. Thousands of men had to march from New York to Virginia in order to make the maneuver happen. Washington turned to Robert Morris. Morris went to work solving the problem right away. He raised $1.4 million to finance the Yorktown campaign, again much of it on his own personal credit."

The decisive American victory at Yorktown that ended the Revolutionary War only happened because Robert Morris personally guaranteed $1.4 million when the U.S. government was totally broke. Morris signed his own name repeatedly, not because Congress appointed him, but because there were no alternatives. Without Morris, Washington could not have trapped Cornwallis.