238 Trumbull Gallery of Paintings in Yale College. 



Jonathan Trumbull, Governor of Connecticut during the Rev- 

 olution. 



Good Peter, a Chief of the Six Nations. 1792. 



Dr. Lemuel Hopkins, of Hartford, poet and physician. 



John Trumbull, author of Mc Fingal. 



No. 29. — Surrender of Lord Cornwallis. — October 19, 1781. 



Tlie 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 ahiiost every 

 part of Georgia and South and North CaroHna, had been success- 

 ively occupied by the British troops, had seriously threatened the 

 ruin of American independence. 



In 1781, Lord Cornwalhs, 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 Yirginia, 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 

 juow 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 Washhigton and the American gen- 

 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 



