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Show FeEnruarv Is Oflr- History wallis was virtually surrounded sur-rounded and escape was all but impossible. PLEASE JOIN the DAR in observing February as American Amer-ican History Month. February is traditionally celebrated as the month of George Washington's birth. It is also the month which the Daughters of the American Revolution Re-volution have established as American History Month. THIS YEAR the DAR is emphasizing the Battle of Yorktown as one of the most important battles in the history of the American Revolution. Gen. George Washington was commander of America's troops and engineered this decisive de-cisive battle. Washington carried car-ried on a secret plan to amass his troops in Virginia and surprise sur-prise the British troops under Cornwallis. Six thousand American and French soldiers marched southward toward Yorktown. All the while Washington attempted to keep British headquarters in New York ignorant of his intentions. When the British were finally convinced that the major attack would be in Virginia, and not in New York, Corn- |