Flickr - USCapitol - Surrender of Lord Cornwallis

John Trumbull
Oil on canvas, 12' x 18'
1820; placed 1826
Rotunda
U.S. Capitol
The subject of this painting is the surrender of the British army at Yorktown, Virginia, in 1781, which ended the last major campaign of the Revolutionary War.

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