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Washington At Yorktown

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Parent Issue
Day
6
Month
May
Year
1881
Copyright
Public Domain
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Tlio London Telegraph publislies the follow ing incident, and reniarks that "there is niiii'li in the nu -innrii's of Voiktown ma iiow to draw living Knglishmcii and American nearer together. and unquestionably tha boarin of (feu. Washington at the suprenie moment toward his van(juisbed and humiliated eneiny wa of that Cbnracter which it is meet and rifjht tlial historians shonld not willingly lrt die." Wlien, on the l.'th of October, 1781, Lord Cornwallis liad lust hU two advancud redoubts by storm, he made uu attempt to escape with his rank and file who we still Út tot duty- rather more than 4,000 inniimber - cross theriverto QloobMer. The atlcnijit was t'ru.-traU'd, as niight have been expected, when it It remembered that opnoting torces, Frencü aml Anurieau. vastly outnumbered the Briiih, and that a Kieiich Heet of moi -e than :U sails, under Cointe di.' drasse, lay In the adjolning river aud roads. On tlie iiioining of iiir iTih of Octooei Lord Oornwalllt accepted the inevitable, aml the torms of capitulation were settled by him, as representkig the British side, anú Gen. W.i-h :i anl Comte de RoctininUeau. a erally npresenting the triumphant forcea of America and Krance. Bnt H snot generally known that at the moment when Lord Cornwallls surrendered to Gen. nigton, the humhled Englislunan simultatteously une". i cliarftcUrigtic tUougbtfulneaa Gen. Washington prayed hlm to put oo liis ha', as - the weather being chllly and there langer of his catchinjf cold. " It is not uiiK'h matter whal now hecomes of me," exclaimed the dejected Knglishman ; to w hich. in a flrin voioe, Gen. Wasliing tou at once replied: "On the contrary, m lord, I anticípate for yon a long career of dhttinction and honor in the service of your kin; and country." How truly tlicsc (enerous and ]ropheti' word ere borne out mav be wen by those who rare to read the epitaph Uxn the monnnwiat erected by a gntaM country to Charles, First Marquia Cornwallto, in 8t. l'aur.scatliedral. Vi't meniories of this kind serve only to reiniiul us that, in Keljle'g beautiful wörds, " Brothers are brothers evermore; no distanoe" - and, it may be addexl, no bickerings - "breaks t In-i r tie of blood." Knland is, happily, on lerms of the closest amity both with Krance and the l'nitiil States; and no " celcbrations " ofeveuta which happened a century since are likely to diminish the cordlality of their frlenushlp.

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Ann Arbor Courier
Old News