Charles Cornwallis

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   1781Siege of Yorktowncommander

   While a French fleet sealed Chesapeake Bay, the American and French armies besieged Cornwallis at Yorktown; the surrender of some 8,000 British troops decided the war.

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  George Washington1732 – 1799

  Commander of the Continental Army and first US president

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  Marquis de Lafayette1757 – 1834

  Nobleman and veteran of the American War of Independence who commanded the Paris National Guard and drafted the Declaration of the Rights of Man, and fled abroad in 1792, only to be held captive by the Austrians

Themes this person appears in

• The American Revolution1765 – 1789

  From the Stamp Act to Washington’s inauguration — thirteen colonies that cried “No taxation without representation” fought Britain for eight years, won their independence and framed a new republic under the Constitution