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A fanciful post-factor rendering imagines the scene as British officers surrendered at Yorktown. (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images)
A fanciful post-factor rendering imagines the scene as British officers surrendered at Yorktown. (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images)