That’s when John Trumbull came to ... in the tremendous emphasis on Surrender Field. That’s where they staged their big to-do.” Nearly 25 years later, Yorktown resident William Nelson ...

Most people have likely only seen John Trumbull's (1756-1843 ... 1777), the turning point in the war, and Surrender of General Cornwallis at Yorktown (October 1781), which essentially ended ...

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Surrender of Lord Cornwallis by John Trumball ... play a secondary role in those images. In contrast, Trumbull’s take on Yorktown places American Generals Benjamin Lincoln and George Washington ...

The past few days included Veterans Day (Monday) and the anniversary of John Trumbull's death (Saturday). In honor of both, let's take a look at Trumbull's 1820 painting, "Surrender of Lord ...

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.

George Washington’s headquarters in Yorktown, Va., followed by a British officer waving a white handkerchief. The officer carried a letter from Lt. Gen. Charles Cornwallis offering to surrender ...