"‘The World Turned Upside Down’ – Did the British...." Topic
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Tango01 | 01 Aug 2018 9:25 p.m. PST |
…. Really Play the Sardonic Melody During the Yorktown Surrender? ""THE BLOW WAS, on the whole, perhaps the heaviest that has ever fallen on the British army." The great historian Sir William Fortescue did not understate the significance of the British defeat at the 1781 Siege of Yorktown. The last major land engagement of the American War of Independence, the 21-day battle saw 9,000 elite British and allied troops under Lord Cornwallis surrounded on the shores of the Virginia Peninsula where the York River meets Chesapeake Bay. Encircling them were 16,000 Continental Army and French soldiers under the command of that colonial upstart George Washington. Cut off from escape by sea, thanks to a naval blockade led by the Comte de Grasse, and pounded without mercy by enemy artillery, the British were forced to seek terms for surrender on Oct. 19 after a humiliating three-week standoff…." Main page link Amicalement Armand
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Virginia Tory | 06 Aug 2018 10:10 a.m. PST |
It would have been called "When the King Enjoys His Own Again." And most likely they played "Down, Derry, Down." Old stuff. |
Tango01 | 06 Aug 2018 11:25 a.m. PST |
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