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The painting is a copy of John Trumbull's painting "The Surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown." This painting’s companion piece can be seen in object 2005.0233.0318.

In the early months of the American Revolution, Daniel Morgan and his soldiers raced north to join the Continental Army during the so-called Beeline March ...

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South Carolina played an outsized role in the Revolutionary War, though it is one that has largely been overlooked by what ...

Beginning July 4, the portrait will be on display in the Declaration of Independence rotunda at the American Revolution ...

A newly acquired 1790 portrait of George Washington is now on permanent display at the American Revolution Museum at Yorktown ...

The American Revolution Museum at Yorktown will display this circa-1790 portrait of George Washington by American artist Charles Peale Polk (1767-1822), who portrays the general as the victor of the ...

It might seem odd that our focus isn’t the first shots fired at Lexington and Concord (April 19, 1775), the British surrender at Yorktown (Oct. 19, 1781) or the signing of the peace treaty (Sept ...

British Gen. Cornwallis’s sword, believed to be the one surrendered to Americans at Yorktown in 1781, is on display at the U.S. Army museum.

As Patriots Point Naval & Maritime Museum gears up for the 50th anniversary of the USS Yorktown's arrival in Charleston Harbor, the museum is launching "Chartin ...