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October 19: Britain's General Cornwallis surrenders to General Washington at Yorktown, conceding American victory in war.
March 9: Siege of Pensacola March 13: Uranus is discovered. September 5: Battle of the Chesapeake September 26: The first page of Aan het Volk van Nederland. September 28: The Siege of Yorktown begins.