238 Trumbull Gallery of Paintings in Yale College. 
Jonatuan T'rumBuLi, Governor of Connecticut during the Rev- 
olution. 
Goop Prerrr, a Chief of the Six Nations. 1792. 
Dr. Lemvet Hopkins, of Hartford, poet and physician. 
Joun Trumputt, author of Mc Fingal. 
No. 29.—Surrenper or Lorp Cornwatuiis.— October 19, 1781. 
The success of this officer in the southern States, during the 
years 1780 and 1781, the capture of Charleston, the victory of 
Camden, and various minor successes, by which almost every 
part of Georgia and South and North Carolina, had been success- 
ively occupied by the British troops, had seriously threatened the 
ruin of American independence. 
In 1781, Lord Cornwallis, regarding his presence as no longer 
essential to the complete reduction of the three southern States, 
marched with the principal part of his force into Virginia, where, 
for some time, his success was almost equally rapid and complete; 
but the admirable combined movement of General Washington 
and our French allies, from. the north, and of the Count de 
Grasse, with the fleet and army of France, from the West Indies, 
turned the scale, and rendered it necessary for him to shut him- 
self up in Yorktown, and attempt to defend himself there, until 
he could receive relief from New York. This hope, however; 
failed him, and on the 19th of October, he surrendered his forces 
to the combined armies of America and France. 
The honor of marching out of the town, with colors flying, 
&c. &c., which had been refused to General Lincoln, when, du- 
ring the preceding campaign, he had surrendered Charleston, was 
how refused to Lord Cornwallis; the terms of the capitulation 
dictated at Charleston were insisted on, and General Lincoln was 
appointed to superintend the submission of the British at York 
town, in the same manner as that of the American troops at 
Charleston, under his command, had been conducted about eigh- 
teen months before. 
_ The American troops were drawn up on the right of the road 
leading into York ; General Washington and the American ge? 
eral officers on the right. The French troops on the opposite 
side of the road facing them; General Rochambeau and the 
principal officers of the French navy and army on the left. The 
