http://www.history.com/this-day-in-histo...t-yorktown
Leave it to the History Channel to fuck up the history though. The war did not actually end until the Treaty of Paris in 1783.
Quote:On this day in 1781, British General Charles Cornwallis formally surrenders 8,000 British soldiers and seamen to a French and American force at Yorktown, Virginia, bringing the American Revolution to a close.
Leave it to the History Channel to fuck up the history though. The war did not actually end until the Treaty of Paris in 1783.
