October 19, 1781 The Siege at Yorktown Ends
On this day in 1781, General Lord Cornwallis signed orders surrendering his British Army to a combined French and American force outside the Virginia tobacco port of Yorktown. This essentially ended the Revolutionary War but it wasn't until September 1783, that the final treaty was signed between the United States and Great Britain which officially ended the war and acknowledged American independence.
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