Benjamin Lincoln's Sword
name: label: user
content: Lincoln, Benjamin
notes: label: Description
content: Physical Description
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content: Forged steel with a stained ivory-and-silvered guard and knuckle bow. Scabbard is leather with metal trim.
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content: Specific History
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content: Sword and scabbard carried by Major General Benjamin Lincoln throughout the Revolutionary War. General Lincoln played a major role in accepting the surrender at Yorktown.
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content: General History
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content: Surrender at Yorktown
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content: General Charles Conrwallis was so mortified by his defeat that he dispatched his second-in-command, Brigadier General Charles O'Hara, to surrender his forces. 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.
label: Description
content: During the surrender ceremonies on the afternoon of October 19, 1781, British Brigadier General Charles O'Hara led a column of British troops out of Yorktown. He surrendered to Major General Benjamin Lincoln, who then directed British troops to lay down their weapons.
place: label: used
content: United States
topic: label: related event
content: American Revolution
label: related event
content: Revolution and the New Nation
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content: Military and Society: Armed Forces History, Military
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content: Military
label: Exhibition
content: Price of Freedom
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Mrs. Henry K. Cowen
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: AF.65512M
label: catalog number
content: 65512
label: accession number
content: 226019
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Sword
label: Other Terms
content: Sword; Edged Weapons
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 1/4 in x 31 in x 2 in; 10.795 cm x 78.74 cm x 5.08 cm