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American Revolution: Cornwallis Surrenders At Yorktown

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American Revolution: Cornwallis Surrenders At Yorktown
December 1781, LONDON MAGAZINE, London, England. 8" x 5", Extremely Fine. Three-page complete printing of the famous letter, signed in type by British General Cornwallis, giving the details of his defeat by George Washington at the Battle of Yorktown, Virginia. this was the battle that essentially ended the American Revolution. This is the famous letter from Cornwallis to British General Sir Henry Clinton which begins: "I have the mortification to inform your excellency that I have been forced to give up the posts of York and Gloucester and to surrender the troops under my command, by capitulation, on the 19th instant, as prisoners of war to the combined forces of America and France...." Historic account of the battle that won the Revolutionary War for America.