Proclamation of illuminations commemorating the surrender of General Cornwallis, 1781 (c1880). Artist: Unknown

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Proclamation of illuminations commemorating the surrender of General Cornwallis, 1781 (c1880). Facsimile. The surrender of the British army commanded by General Cornwallis at the Siege of Yorktown is generally acepted as the decisive event of the American Revolutionary War. A print from Cassell's History of the United States, by Edmund Ollier, Volume II, Cassell Petter and Galpin, London, c1880.

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