Lieutenant General Charles Cornwallis, commanding 7,000 regulars of the Army of Great Britain, surrenders to General George Washington, Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army.
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References:
Winston Churchill, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, four volumes. (London: Cassell, 1956-58), 3:212.
Calvin D. Linton, ed. The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America, 1776-1976, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 31.
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