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"Washington Declining Overtures From Cornwallis, At Yorktown, Va."

Description: "A fresco by Brumidi in the Hall of Representatives pictures the incident at Yorktown when Washington declined overtures from Cornwallis for a two days cessation of hostilities, Oct. 17, 1781."

 

 Washington and Cornwallis at Yorktown - 1781
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