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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...
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    Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis (31 December 1738 – 5 October 1805) was a British Army officer, Whig politician and colonial administrator...
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    rapidly. Cornwallis asked for capitulation terms on October 17. After two days of negotiation, the surrender ceremony occurred on October 19; Cornwallis was...
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    John Trumbull (category Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences)
    Congress, along with three of his other Revolutionary-era portraits, Surrender of General Burgoyne, Surrender of Lord Cornwallis, and General George Washington...
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    paintings: the Declaration of Independence, the Surrender of General Burgoyne, the Surrender of Lord Cornwallis, and General George Washington Resigning His...
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    work in 1817. These are Declaration of Independence, Surrender of General Burgoyne, Surrender of Lord Cornwallis, and General George Washington Resigning...
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    side are by John Trumbull: Declaration of Independence, Surrender of General Burgoyne, Surrender of Lord Cornwallis, and General George Washington Resigning...
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  • soldiers and French naval forces force the surrender of Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown, Virginia, ending the American War of Independence April - François Le Vaillant...
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    depiction of the 1781 surrender of Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown Charles III of Spain, c. 1786–88 Peter the Great The British Speaker of the House of Commons...
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    British General Cornwallis was besieged by a Franco-American force in Yorktown in September and October 1781. Cornwallis was forced to surrender in October...
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    Earl Cornwallis was a title in the Peerage of Great Britain created in 1753 for Charles Cornwallis, 5th Baron Cornwallis. The second Earl was created...
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    October with 25 ships of the line and transports carrying 7,000 troops to relieve Cornwallis. It was two days after Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown. General...
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  • of the Revolution . Yorktown 1781 - PBS". www.pbs.org. Archived from the original on February 12, 2017. Retrieved May 6, 2017. "Cornwallis' Surrender"...
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    national memorial centered on a colossal sculpture carved into the granite face of Mount Rushmore (Lakota: Tȟuŋkášila Šákpe, or Six Grandfathers) in the Black...
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    Portrait of Lord Cornwallis is a 1783 portrait painting by the English artist Thomas Gainsborough depicting the British general Charles, Earl Cornwallis. Cornwallis...
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    Huntington family (category Business families of the United States)
    Army and is depicted as one of the officers of General Washington's Army in John Trumbull's Surrender of Lord Cornwallis. He served as a United States...
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    George Washington's teeth (category Health of presidents of the United States)
    the first president of the United States, lost all but one of his teeth by the time he was inaugurated, and had at least four sets of dentures he used throughout...
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    John Parke Custis (category Members of the Virginia House of Delegates)
    few weeks before) attempted to help nurse him. Shortly after the surrender of Cornwallis, Custis died on November 5, 1781, at Eltham. He was buried at his...
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    Nicholas Fish (category American people of English descent)
    (2005). The Guns of Independence. The Siege of Yorktown, 1781. El Dorado Hills: Savas Beatie. ISBN 9781932714685. "'Surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown' (1781)...
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    General of the Armies of the United States, more commonly referred to as General of the Armies, is the highest military rank in the United States. The...
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    about 9,000 men, under the command of Charles, Lord Cornwallis, marched north to Trimble's Ford across the West Branch of the Brandywine Creek, then east...
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    with two British representatives, and the articles of capitulation were signed by General Cornwallis the following day. Laurens returned to South Carolina...
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    Betsy Ross flag (category Flags of the American Revolution)
    Gallery. In his unfinished rendition of the Surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown, date not established, the circle of stars is suggested and one star shows...
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  • Jonathan Clark (soldier) (category American people of English descent)
    formally exchanged until after the surrender of Lord Cornwallis. Abraham Bowman was the colonel of the 8th Virginia Regiment of which Clark was the lieutenant-colonel...
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    William McKendree (category Bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church)
    commissary department. He was present at the siege of Yorktown and the surrender of Lord Cornwallis. After the war, he returned to private life. William...
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    Mount Washington is an ultra-prominent mountain in the state of New Hampshire. It is the highest peak in the Northeastern United States at 6,288.2 ft (1...
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    Benedict Arnold: A Tale of Two Patriots. Regnery Publishing. ISBN 9781596981645. Patterson, Benton (2004). Washington and Cornwallis: The Battle for America...
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    on October 13, these efforts were too late to save Burgoyne. News of the surrender at Saratoga was instrumental in formally creating the Franco-American...
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    Five-pointed star (category Types of polygons)
    painting Surrender of Lord Cornwallis by John Trumbull (c. 1820, depicting an event of 1781) shows twelve stars arranged along the outline of a rectangle...
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    of Washington is the fresco painted by Greek-Italian artist Constantino Brumidi in 1865 and visible through the oculus of the dome in the rotunda of the...
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