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  2. Surrender of Lord Cornwallis - Wikipedia

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    The Surrender of Lord Cornwallis is an oil painting by John Trumbull. The painting, which was completed in 1820, now hangs in the rotunda of the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. The painting depicts the surrender of British Lieutenant General Charles, Earl Cornwallis at Yorktown, Virginia , on October 19, 1781, ending the siege of ...

  3. Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis - Wikipedia

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    Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, KG, PC (31 December 1738 – 5 October 1805) was a British Army officer, Whig politician and colonial administrator. In the United States and the United Kingdom, he is best known as one of the leading British general officers in the American War of Independence .

  4. American Revolutionary War - Wikipedia

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    Cornwallis was forced to surrender in October. The British wars with France and Spain continued for another two years, but fighting largely ceased in North America. In the Treaty of Paris, ratified on September 3, 1783, Great Britain acknowledged the sovereignty and independence of the United States, bringing the American Revolutionary War to ...

  5. Siege of Yorktown - Wikipedia

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    Surrender of Cornwallis. At Yorktown, VA, Oct. 1781, Nathaniel Currier. D'Amour Museum of Fine Arts. Cornwallis refused to attend the surrender ceremony, claiming that he had an illness. Instead, Brigadier General Charles O'Hara led the British army onto the field. O'Hara first attempted to surrender to Rochambeau, who shook his head and ...

  6. Naval battles of the American Revolutionary War - Wikipedia

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    The surrender of Lord Cornwallis. The British retreat in disarray set off a flurry of panic among the Loyalist population. [115] The news of the defeat was also not received well in London. King George III wrote (well before learning of Cornwallis's surrender) that "after the knowledge of the defeat of our fleet [...] I nearly think the empire ...

  7. File:Surrender of Lord Cornwallis.jpg - Wikipedia

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  8. Cornwallis in North America - Wikipedia

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    Surrender of Lord Cornwallis by John Trumbull Charles, Earl Cornwallis (1738–1805) was a military officer who served in the British Army during the American War of Independence . He is best known for surrendering his army after the 1781 siege of Yorktown , an act that ended major hostilities in North America and led directly to peace ...

  9. Continental Congress - Wikipedia

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    Lord Cornwallis was forced to sue for peace and to surrender his entire army to General Washington. During 1783, the Americans secured the official recognition of the independence of the United States from Great Britain following negotiations with British diplomats in Paris , which culminated with the signing of the Treaty of Paris on September ...