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?

George Washington, after the last major battle of the Revolutionary War. Surrender Field is preserved as part of Yorktown Battlefield, a 4,500-acre unit of Colonial National Historical Park in ...