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Article: YORKTOWN PLANS COMMEMORATIVE EVENTS, PARADE.(DAILY BREAK)
- Article from:
- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- October 6, 1996
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Byline: STEPHEN HARRIMAN
IT WAS our first real war, and we won it - right here in Virginia, finally - and more than two centuries later we are still going to celebrate it and celebrate it and celebrate all we want.
The Revolutionary War ended, for all practical purposes, when British and Hessian forces under the command of Gen. Charles Cornwallis surrendered to an American-French force under Gen. George Washington on Oct. 19, 1781, at
Yorktown.
What was accomplished there by Washington has long fascinated historians, among them the late Douglas Southall Freeman, who wrote a massive biography of Washington.
Freeman called ...