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The British Surrendering Their Arms To Gen. Washington After Their Defeat At YorkTown In Virginia October 1781 – Vintage Wall Art

The British Surrendering Their Arms To Gen. Washington After Their Defeat At YorkTown In Virginia October 1781, c. 1819 — antique engraving
The British Surrendering Their Arms To Gen. Washington After Their Defeat At YorkTown In Virginia October 1781, c. 1819. Antique engraving from the Washington collection.

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This antique engraving of The British Surrendering Their Arms To Gen. Washington After Their Defeat At YorkTown In Virginia October 1781 brings a moment of history to your wall. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.

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The British Surrendering Their Arms To Gen. Washington After Their Defeat At YorkTown In Virginia October 1781

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Here the British army lays down its arms before George Washington at Yorktown, Virginia, in October 1781, a defeat that effectively ended major fighting in the American Revolution. The surrender followed a siege by combined American and French forces that trapped Lord Cornwallis's army on the peninsula. Cornwallis did not attend the ceremony and sent General Charles O'Hara in his place, and the sword was formally received by Benjamin Lincoln rather than Washington. The print was drawn by John Francis Renault and engraved around 1819 by Tanner, Vallance, Kearny & Co. and William Allen, decades after the event it recalls.

Created / publishedc. 1819
Medium1 print, engraving
NotesJohn Francis Renault, artist. Engraved by Tanner, Vallance, Kearny & Co. and William Allen
Original scan4,696 × 3,292 px · prints to 16 × 11 in at 300 dpi
Reference02820u

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