On Oct. 19, 1781, the defeated British troops marched out of Yorktown and across the field to surrender to the Americans and their French allies, while the British played the tune of “The World’s Turned Upside Down.”
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The Battle at Yorktown was not the end of the American Revolution, which would not officially come for another two years. But it was a smashing victory over the British, and, much as they hated to admit it, the British government overseas knew it spelled the end of their effort to reclaim the colonies and the start of true American independence.
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British Prime Minister Lord North, when he heard about the surrender at Yorktown, declared in despair, “Oh God. It is all over. It is all
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