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To: Snowshoe who wrote (227310)	11/8/2007 3:31:45 PM
From: KLP	Respond to of 793782

Re Battle at Yorktown: This may be why some of the books show this battle as THE end of the Rev War... (per Wiki as well) >>>>>>>>>>Conclusion The British surrendering at Yorktown on October 19, 1781 The morning following the battle a formal surrender ceremony took place. Cornwallis refused to attend out of pure embarrassment, claiming illness. Although absent at the surrender ceremony, he observed to George Washington, “This is a great victory for you, but your brightest laurels will be writ upon the banks of the Delaware.” According to legend, the British forces marched to the fife tune of “The World Turned Upside Down,” though no real evidence of this exists. Cornwallis’ deputy, General O’Hara, at first attempted to surrender to the French General Rochambeau, but Rochambeau’s aide-de-camp, Mathieu Dumas, is reputed to have said, “Vous vous trompez, le général en chef de notre armée est à la droite.” [4] (“You are mistaken, the commander-in-chief of our army is to the right.”) and then took him to Washington. O’Hara then attempted to surrender to Washington, who refused because it was not Cornwallis himself, and indicated that the subordinate should surrender to General Benjamin Lincoln, field commander of the American forces. O’Hara ceremonially offered his sword to Lincoln, who finally accepted. All other British troops were required to surrender and trample their firearms in the custom of the time. The British prisoners amounted to about three quarters of all British soldiers in the U.S. It was not clear at the time that Yorktown was the climax of the war, since the British still occupied key ports such as New York City and Charlestown, South Carolina. Sporadic fighting continued after the Yorktown surrender, and Washington believed the war might drag on for another year. However, British Prime Minister, Lord North, resigned after receiving news of the surrender at Yorktown. His successors decided that it was no longer in Britain’s best interest to continue the war, and negotiations were undertaken. The British signed the Treaty of Paris in September 1783 recognizing the United States and promising to remove all British troops from the country.<<<<<<<