Cornwallis Surrenders, Williamsburg National Wax Museum
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| Depiction of the surrender of Cornwallis on October 19, 1781. American and French troops, and a French fleet under De Grass, Charles Earl Cornwallis, Lt. General of the British Army, signaled articles of capitulation. The British troops marched out their colors, cased, their band playing an old English march appropriately called “The World Turned Upside Down.” Eight thousand men laid down their arms. |
