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At Yorktown in the fall of 1781, General George Washington, with allied American and French forces, besieged General Charles Lord Cornwallis’s British army in the last major battle of the Revolutionary War. On October 19, Cornwallis surrendered, effectively ending the war and ensuring United States independence.
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