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Yorktown, Virginia — On October 19, 1781, British General Charles Cornwallis formally surrendered his army to General George Washington, effectively bringing the American Revolutionary War to an end. After weeks of siege by combined American and French forces, Cornwallis’s troops—trapped on the Yorktown peninsula and cut off by the French fleet at sea—were left with no escape or reinforcements. The surrender followed intense bombardment that destroyed much of the British defenses. With his situa