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The American Revolution Changed The World For The Better

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OCTOBER 19, 1781: Under siege by the Continental Army and cut off from resupply by a French naval fleet, British Lord General Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown, effectively ending the fighting in the American Revolution. Cornwallis pleads illness and does not himself attend the surrender ceremony (as pictured in John Trumbull's painting).

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