THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1775 1783
THE TREATY OF PARIS
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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True
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False
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -General Lord Cornwallis surrendering his sword and his army to General George Washington and the Continental and French armies after the final battle of the Revolutionary War on October 19, 1781 in Yorktown, Virginia.
Detailed explanation-2: -On October 19, 1781, British General Charles Cornwallis surrendered his army of some 8, 000 men to General George Washington at Yorktown, giving up any chance of winning the Revolutionary War.
Detailed explanation-3: -In reality, Cornwallis chose not to participate in the surrender, citing illness and leaving General Charles O’Hara to lead the British troops. Washington, refusing to accept the sword of anyone but Cornwallis, appointed General Benjamin Lincoln to accept O’Hara’s sword.
Detailed explanation-4: -When O’Hara offered Cornwallis’s sword to George Washington, Washington, in keeping with the rigid hierarchies of military protocol, asked his second-in-command, Major General Benjamin Lincoln, to accept it.
Detailed explanation-5: -Cornwallis returned to India for a second term as governor-general in 1805, but died shortly after his arrival and was buried in Calcutta.