http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/10/19/226-years-ago-today-american-liberty-is-secured/ Life. Liberty. Property. Defending individual freedom and liberty, one post at a time. Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:22:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/10/19/226-years-ago-today-american-liberty-is-secured/#comment-40583 The Crossed Pond » Happy War of Ungrateful Colonial Aggression Day Fri, 19 Oct 2007 16:50:17 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/10/19/226-years-ago-today-american-liberty-is-secured/#comment-40583 [...] 226 years ago today, Lord Cornwallis formally surrendered to George Washington. The morning following the battle a formal surrender ceremony took place. Cornwallis refused to attend out of pure embarrassment, claiming illness. Although absent at the surrender ceremony, he observed to George Washington, ?This is a great victory for you, but your brightest laurels will be writ upon the banks of the Delaware.? According to legend, the British forces marched to the fife tune of ?The World Turned Upside Down?, though no real evidence of this exists. Cornwallis? deputy at first attempted to surrender to the French General Rochambeau, but Rochambeau?s aide-de-camp, Mathieu Dumas, is reputed to have said, ?Vous vous trompez, le g?n?ral en chef de notre arm?e est ? la droite.? [4] (?You are mistaken, the commander-in-chief of our army is to the right.?) and then took him to Washington. The lieutenant then attempted to surrender to Washington, who refused because it was not Cornwallis himself, and indicated that the subordinate should surrender to General Benjamin Lincoln, field commander of the American forces. Cornwallis? lieutenant ceremonially offered his sword to Lincoln, which was accepted. All other British troops were required to surrender and trample their firearms in the custom of the time. posted in: Main [...] [...] 226 years ago today, Lord Cornwallis formally surrendered to George Washington. The morning following the battle a formal surrender ceremony took place. Cornwallis refused to attend out of pure embarrassment, claiming illness. Although absent at the surrender ceremony, he observed to George Washington, ?This is a great victory for you, but your brightest laurels will be writ upon the banks of the Delaware.? According to legend, the British forces marched to the fife tune of ?The World Turned Upside Down?, though no real evidence of this exists. Cornwallis? deputy at first attempted to surrender to the French General Rochambeau, but Rochambeau?s aide-de-camp, Mathieu Dumas, is reputed to have said, ?Vous vous trompez, le g?n?ral en chef de notre arm?e est ? la droite.? [4] (?You are mistaken, the commander-in-chief of our army is to the right.?) and then took him to Washington. The lieutenant then attempted to surrender to Washington, who refused because it was not Cornwallis himself, and indicated that the subordinate should surrender to General Benjamin Lincoln, field commander of the American forces. Cornwallis? lieutenant ceremonially offered his sword to Lincoln, which was accepted. All other British troops were required to surrender and trample their firearms in the custom of the time. posted in: Main [...]

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