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After the Surrender at Yorktown

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Near this place on October 19, 1781, one hour after the surrender at Yorktown, British troops under Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton surrendered to French Brigadier General M. de Choisy, commander of the French and American forces, ending British rule in America.
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