Surrender Field at Yorktown where the army of Cornwallis marched out in defeat
in 1781. For Washington's diary account of the event check this American Treasures link.
The American Revolution
Surrender Field at Yorktown where the army
of Cornwallis marched out in defeat
in 1781. For Washington's diary account of the event check this American Treasures link.
A timeline of events from 1764 to 1775 is offered by the Library of Congress which extends another timeline from 1776 to 1789 as a part of its Documents from the Continental Congress and Constitutional Convention exhibit.
The Franco-American treaties of 1778 are explored in the Library of Congress Today in History feature for February 6, and The Treaty of Paris which ended the Revolutionary War is the Today in History, feature for January 14 and a second feature for September 3.
Painter Jonathan Trumbull is the second feature of the Library of Congress, Today in History for June 6.
More material can be found at the web site of the presentation of Library of Congress and British Library "John Bull and Uncle Sam."
J. Hector St, John de Crevecouer's, 1782 view of America, Letters from and American Farmer is available as a part of the University of Virginia's, hypertext project.
E-mail JTJWH@ttacs.ttu.edu
This page was
last updated
August 21, 2002
Background: an altered image of the Declaration of Independence, see the original images at the presentation on the Declaration of Independence by the US National Archives.