When British officers at Yorktown yielded their flags to the colonial army to end the Revolutionary War in 1781, it wasn’t George Washington or Alexander Hamilton who accepted the surrender.

GENERAL CORNWALLIS DIDN'T SURRENDER IN PERSON ... a British drummer boy and a red-coated officer carrying a white flag out of Yorktown at 9 a.m. on October 17. The two sides didn't finish ...

“But a lot was lost in the tremendous emphasis on Surrender Field. That’s where they staged their big to-do.” Nearly 25 years later, Yorktown resident William Nelson — the son of Virginia ...

That included requiring the American forces to keep their colors (flags) cased and forbidding ... to the British following their surrender after Yorktown. What Tunes Were Played?

the siege and final assaults left Britain no choice but surrender. Despite 30,000 British troops still in America, the defeat crushed British morale and led to a peace agreement. Yorktown didn’t ...