Norwich bulletin., 1921-05-25
ODD INCIDENTS IN AMERICAN
 HISTORY

HOW CORNWALLIS SURRENDERED
 The most interesting day in American history, next to that on which the Dec laration of Independence was passed, was October IT, 17S1, when Gen. Corn wallis was compelled to surrender his British army to Gen. George Washington at Yorktown. When Cornwallis found that it would not be possible to extricate himself commissioners were appointed to adjust the etiquette of the capitula- ton. They were Viscount De Noailles and Lieut. Col. Laurens, on the part of the allied American army, and Col. Dun das and Major Ross aide-de-camp to Lord Cornwallis. on the of the enemy.
 On October 19, about 1 o'clock in the afternoon, the articles of equalization were signed and interchanged, and about an hour later the British garrison of Yorktown, led on by Gen. O'Hara-on account of the indisposition of Gen Lin coin through the combined army, drawn up in two lines on the field, where hav- ing grounded their arms. and stripped off their accouterments, they were recon dueted through the lines and committed to the care of the guard At the same time and in the same manner the garri- son of Gloucester was surrendered to the command of the Duke de Lauzun.
 An officer of rank of the Jersey line, thus wrote of the incident in a letter dated October 21: If could commun- icate the pleasure on seeing the poor proud British ground their arms, it would give you new and inexpressible sensa- tions. The officers in general behaved like boys who had been whipped at school; some bit their lips, some pouted others cried their round, broad-brimmed N,z At-. hiding those faces they were ashamed to show. The foreign regiments made 9 much more military appearance, and | the conduct of their officers was far more becoming men of fortitude."
 Previous to the surrender, a detach- mept of French and one of American troops took possession of the British horr works, and planted on the apartments the standards of the two nations "Tht brilliant appearance of the allied army the joy which diffused itself from rank to rank contrasted with the mortiff- cation. the fespondence, and unsoldierly i behavior of the British troops formed one of the most pleasing prospects a pa triot can behold. or even his fancy de. pict" said a writer in the New Jersey | Gazette" of November T.
 The garrison was made prisoners ot 1 war to be disposed of In America at ou option, to march oud with cased colors and to play no French or American tune All plundered property was to be restor cd to it's owners. The number to sur render was between five and six th6usant
 men, including sick and wounded. Thei
 military stores were tri1ing and thei commissary stores did not exceed sf,
 hundred barrels of pork and about on
 thousand barrels of bread and flour
 Aside from this nearly one hundre,
 British vessels of one character or an
 other fell into the hands of the Frencl
 fleet under the equalization
 It would not be possible to bestow to
 much praise upon the officers and sol
 diers of the French army assisting fo
 their pert in the result. It was tn
 laudfble ambition of initiating tn achievement of the finest body of sol diers in the world that gave the Amer,
 can troops inspira tion. The only con
 tention which subsisted during the siep of Yorktown, between the troops of th two nations, was the glorious one of e5 ceiling each other in operations aeains
 the common enemy and in doine iustic
 to each others merits.
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