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Show February Is History Month determine that Yorktown was indeed lost to the Americans. They then returned to New York. British troops continued to occupy New York and Charleston; Char-leston; the war was not officially offi-cially over until 1783 when a treaty was signed in Paris. It was the Battle of Yorktown however, in 1781 which ended the fighting. Observe February Febru-ary as American History Month and learn about our country's rich history. The Daughters of the American Amer-ican Revolution recognize February as American History Month. This year marks the 200th anniversary of the siege of Yorktown, the deciding battle bat-tle of the American Revolution. Revolu-tion. LORD CORNWALLIS, who was commander of the Britsh troops at Yorktown, had been awaiting reinforcements reinforce-ments from New York throughout the battle. Unfortunately Unfor-tunately for him, the reinforcements reinforce-ments came too late, leaving New York on the day of the surrender. They came on ships, which lingered off the Virginia shore long enough to |