This is from the online archives of The Star of North Augusta, a collection of more than 25,000 articles published from October 2007 to February 2022. Lt. Gen. Charles Earle Cornwallis of the British ...
Oct. 19 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1781, Britain's Lord Charles Cornwallis surrendered with more than 7,000 troops to Gen. George Washington at Yorktown, Va., effectively ending the American ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Why is Charlotte nicknamed the "Hornets' Nest?" Historians say it dates back to the Revolutionary War, when British Gen. Lord ...
On Oct. 19, 1781, British Gen. Charles Cornwallis surrendered his army of about 8,000 men to Gen. George Washington at Yorktown, giving up any chance of winning the Revolutionary War. Cornwallis had ...
The surrender of British General Cornwallis at Yorktown on October 19, 1781, was a critical turning point in the American Revolution. Tennesseans John Sevier and Isaac Shelby, leading the ...
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