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Oct. 19 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1781, Britain's Lord Charles Cornwallis surrendered with more than 7,000 troops to Gen. George Washington at Yorktown, Va., effectively ending the American ...

On this day in 1781, British General Charles Cornwallis surrendered his army of about 8,000 men to General George Washington at Yorktown. Cornwallis marched his army into the Virginia port town ...

Artillery officers of the French and American forces encamped around Yorktown looked at the small town fortified by British troops in October 1781 and wondered where to send the first cannon shots.

From the first shots at Lexington and Concord in 1775 to Cornwallis’s surrender at Yorktown in 1781, the American ...

On Oct. 19, 1781, British Gen. Charles Cornwallis surrendered his army of about 8,000 men to Gen. George Washington at Yorktown, giving up any chance of winning the Revolutionary War. Cornwallis had ...

George Hadden (also spelled Haddon), born in 1749, filed for a pension in Blount County in 1832, providing details about his service during the Revolutionary War. In July 1777, while living in ...

The movie’s depiction taps into a familiar vein of hostility toward him—every American schoolchild knows that 1st Marquess Cornwallis was sent by George III to snuff out the American Revolution, and ...

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