 | 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... 8 KB (811 words) - 17:18, 15 January 2024 |
 | Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, KG, PC (31 December 1738 – 5 October 1805) was a British Army officer, Whig politician and colonial administrator... 68 KB (7,455 words) - 06:27, 8 March 2024 |
| rapidly. Cornwallis asked for capitulation terms on October 17. After two days of negotiation, the surrender ceremony occurred on October 19; Cornwallis was... 68 KB (7,965 words) - 15:32, 24 April 2024 |
 | paintings: the Declaration of Independence, the Surrender of General Burgoyne, the Surrender of Lord Cornwallis, and General George Washington Resigning His... 8 KB (697 words) - 10:50, 8 February 2024 |
 | 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... 25 KB (2,413 words) - 10:30, 8 April 2024 |
 | United States Capitol rotunda (redirect from Rotunda of the United States Capitol) work in 1817. These are Declaration of Independence, Surrender of General Burgoyne, Surrender of Lord Cornwallis, and General George Washington Resigning... 47 KB (2,914 words) - 13:23, 19 April 2024 |
 | 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... 18 KB (1,611 words) - 04:17, 5 March 2024 |
 | 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... 14 KB (1,535 words) - 02:54, 22 April 2024 |
of the Revolution . Yorktown 1781 - PBS". www.pbs.org. Archived from the original on February 12, 2017. Retrieved May 6, 2017. "Cornwallis' Surrender"... 11 KB (886 words) - 15:52, 23 January 2024 |
 | United States Capitol (redirect from Capitol of the United States of America) side are by John Trumbull: Declaration of Independence, Surrender of General Burgoyne, Surrender of Lord Cornwallis, and General George Washington Resigning... 94 KB (9,517 words) - 00:44, 24 April 2024 |
 | 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)... 12 KB (1,088 words) - 21:27, 2 April 2024 |
| across the Atlantic. Cornwallis expected to have good relations with Clinton; a mutual friend, William Phillips, reported Cornwallis to be "very happy to... 52 KB (7,110 words) - 17:18, 19 August 2023 |
 | Tricorne (category History of clothing (Western fashion)) 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... 16 KB (1,707 words) - 12:22, 24 April 2024 |
| Schuylerville) and surrendered his entire army there on October 17. His surrender, says historian Edmund Morgan, "was a great turning point of the war because... 61 KB (6,856 words) - 14:07, 3 April 2024 |
 | Mount Rushmore (redirect from Shrine of Democracy) national memorial centered on a colossal sculpture carved into the granite face of Mount Rushmore (Lakota: Tȟuŋkášila Šákpe, or Six Grandfathers) in the Black... 77 KB (6,947 words) - 15:29, 22 April 2024 |
 | 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... 38 KB (4,497 words) - 14:29, 9 April 2024 |
 | Purple Heart (redirect from Order of the Purple Heart) name of the president to those wounded or killed while serving, on or after 5 April 1917, with the U.S. military. With its forerunner, the Badge of Military... 44 KB (5,138 words) - 14:57, 15 April 2024 |
 | Charles Cornwallis, the Earl Cornwallis, was appointed in February 1786 to serve as both Commander-in-Chief of British India and Governor of the Presidency... 47 KB (6,282 words) - 18:40, 12 August 2023 |
 | George Washington's teeth (category History of dentistry) out before he reached the age of thirty, and he eventually lost them all. During his life, he had at least four sets of dentures made to replace them... 11 KB (1,169 words) - 22:13, 31 March 2024 |
 | British general Cornwallis was besieged by a Franco-American force in Yorktown in September and October 1781. Cornwallis was forced to surrender in October... 296 KB (29,869 words) - 11:05, 22 April 2024 |
 | Augustine Washington (category Fathers of presidents of the United States) Born in Westmoreland, Virginia, he was the father of ten children, among them the first president of the United States, George Washington, soldier and... 11 KB (1,122 words) - 15:55, 22 April 2024 |
 | noticing. Cornwallis found himself surrounded, and a French naval victory against the British rescue fleet dashed his hopes. The surrender of Cornwallis to Washington... 63 KB (7,582 words) - 18:29, 11 March 2024 |
 | British under Lord Cornwallis rallied, and the Marylanders gave way. Gist escaped, and, a year later, he was present at the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown... 10 KB (998 words) - 21:35, 30 December 2023 |
of the past half century". Kathleen M. Lynch designed the front cover, which bears American painter John Trumbull's 1820 artwork, Surrender of Lord Cornwallis... 44 KB (4,656 words) - 03:10, 25 April 2024 |
 | estimate. The town is most famous as the site of the siege and subsequent surrender of General Charles Cornwallis to General George Washington and the French... 19 KB (2,015 words) - 12:05, 5 April 2024 |
 | 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... 31 KB (3,472 words) - 20:29, 23 February 2024 |
 | Washington, D.C. (redirect from District of Columbia, District of Columbia) C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly called Washington or D.C., is the capital city and federal district of the United States. The city... 290 KB (24,184 words) - 04:57, 22 April 2024 |
 | the surrender of Lord Cornwallis's Southern army, and effectively bringing an end to the fighting on the North American mainland for the remainder of the... 24 KB (2,839 words) - 03:53, 22 March 2024 |
 | Hamilton (musical) (redirect from Best of Wives and Best of Women) covers the life of American Founding Father Alexander Hamilton and his involvement in the American Revolution and the political history of the early United... 215 KB (18,075 words) - 21:34, 18 April 2024 |
 | size of the rotunda demanded full life-sized works. The military subjects selected were the Surrender of General Burgoyne and the Surrender of Lord Cornwallis... 12 KB (1,161 words) - 15:10, 15 April 2023 |