Surrender of Lord Cornwallis by John Trumbull, depicts the British surrendering Benjamin Lincoln, flanked by French (left) and American troops. Oil on canvas, 1820.
Although the war persisted on the high seas and in other theaters, the Patriot victory at Yorktown ended fighting in the American colonies, Washington had completely encircled Cornwallis and Yorktown with the combined forces of Continental and French troops.
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