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 ...

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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 ...

click image for close-up John Trumbull's life ... up from his earlier miniatures. Trumbull enlarged his paintings of the surrenders of the British at Yorktown and Saratoga, George Washington ...

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.

Glorious Lessons: John Trumbull, Painter of the American Revolution, by Richard Brookhiser (Yale, 276 pp., $30) Trumbull marks a departure from the author’s previous biographical subjects, all of whom ...

On Oct. 19, Cornwallis sent a brigadier general to surrender Cornwallis’ sword ... The major fighting of the Revolutionary War ended there, at Yorktown. It was a great victory for the Americans ...

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 ...