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George Washington and his men surrounded General Cornwallis's men in Yorktown. Too late, Cornwallis discovered that his army was surrounded. Cannons were fired for weeks. Cornwallis ran out of hope and tried to flee by ship, but a fierce storm stopped them and it forced Cornwallis back to Yorktown. On October 17, 1781, Cornwallis sent a runner and a drummer boy with a white flag to surrender to General George Washington, the winner of the Revolutionary War from 1775-1781. Go USA!

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