The First Confederation Congress appoints Major General Benjamin Lincoln as the first Secretary at War.
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Lieutenant General Charles Cornwallis, commanding 7,000 regulars of the Army of Great Britain, abandons his outer defenses, at Yorktown, Virginia.
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Subsequent Events:
References:
“Chronology of Events, 1774-1804,” from The Debate on the Constitution, two volumes, Bernard Bailyn, ed., (New York: Library of America, 1992), 2:1037.
Calvin D. Linton, ed. The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America, 1776-1976, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 31.
Current U.s. National Debt:
