The outcome in Yorktown, Virginia marked the conclusion of In the summer of , Joseph Plumb Martin enlisted in the Connecticut state militia at the tender age of 15; he later joined the Continental Army of General George Washington and served nearly seven years on behalf of the Revolutionary cause. In , the year-old Martin Tensions had been building for many years between residents of the 13 American colonies and the British authorities, particularly in Massachusetts. On the night The Townshend Acts were a series of measures, passed by the British Parliament in , that taxed goods imported to the American colonies.
But American colonists, who had no representation in Parliament, saw the Acts as an abuse of power. The British sent troops to America to George Washington was commander in chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War and served two terms as the first U. The son of a prosperous planter, Washington was raised in colonial Virginia. As a young From April to March , in the opening stage of the American Revolutionary War , colonial militiamen, who later became part of the Continental army, successfully laid siege to British-held Boston, Massachusetts.
The siege included the June Battle of Bunker Live TV. As if to instruct posterity as to where this victory was really achieved, Washington added a short paragraph at the end: "Done in the trenches before York, October 19th, This print, an lithograph, depicts the surrender at Yorktown. The print shows a defeated Lord Cornwallis surrendering his sword to General Washington. This transaction, however, was not the one that actually took place.
Though Cornwallis did not really present his sword to Washington at the surrender, this print captures, if not a true moment, a patriotic feeling forged by the end of Revolutionary hostilities and the birth of a new nation from the ashes of war.
Read the introduction and the transcript. This mezzotint may be attributed to the engraver, George Graham, who was active from to Little is known about him other than he was located in Philadelphia in and worked for publishers in New York in Graham engraved portraits of many of the most notable men of his time, including Alexander Hamilton, Chancellor Robert R.
Livingston, Samuel Adams and John Adams. Holden, Edwin Babcock. Catalogue of the very important collection of rare Americana and fine engravings formed by the late Edwin Babcock Holden to be sold April 21, New York: T. Lord Cornwallis was one of the most capable British generals of the American Revolution.
After conducting a series of raids against towns and plantations in Virginia, Cornwallis settled in the tidewater town of Yorktown in August. The British immediately began fortifying the town and the adjacent promontory of Gloucester Point across the York River. Washington and Rochambeau made plans to attack Cornwallis with the assistance of a large French fleet under the Count de Grasse, and on August 21 they crossed the Hudson River to march south to Yorktown.
Covering miles in 15 days, the allied force reached the head of Chesapeake Bay in early September. Meanwhile, a British fleet under Admiral Thomas Graves failed to break French naval superiority at the Battle of Virginia Capes on September 5, denying Cornwallis his expected reinforcements.
De Grasse landed another 3, French troops carried by his fleet. A large British fleet carrying 7, men set out to rescue Cornwallis, but it was too late. On October 19, General Cornwallis surrendered 7, officers and men, seamen, cannons, 15 galleys, a frigate, and 30 transport ships. Although the war persisted on the high seas and in other theaters, the Patriot victory at Yorktown effectively ended fighting in the American colonies.
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