Show y yorktown Day DayOn DayI II I On Oct Jet 19 1781 an able floral General Lord Cornwallis sis whose hose ancestors still live in ini intent surrendered a surround- surround r i Kent tent i Si eel ed British army amy to Generale General f George e Washington That virtually vir vir- vir ended the Revolution lu ail Y and land gave this country in in- dependence THE NEWS reached Philadelphia Phila Phila- i then the capital delphia 1 p hia r three pee ee days later by express rider The resulting celebration celebration for two tion tion was postponed I days until an official report was received One of Washington's Washington's Wash Wash- ington's n ns n's aides Colonel Tench Tilghman I ian arrived with the official report on the and the city enjoyed a gala which celebration-which included the French Minister Munster the French having offered so much help to the American I cause I There were other celebrations celebrations celebrations if in cities and towns in all the thirteen states GENERAL Washington and Mrs Washington arrived in inthe inthe inthe the capital in November and andI I were Kere received with great en en- f For a time the day was celebrated each year but strangely few Americans America today know that the is yorktown Day and it is not observed in many areas |