Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis

I was out in the militia at the time of the Battle of Brandywine.

I was at Newark at the time Lord Cornwallis was taken.

I am not able to state the times and places of my services more particularly, but I am satisfied that the time I served in the militia added to the time I served in the Continental Army, considerably exceeds the span of two years.

I have no discharge or documentary evidence to know my services or assist my memory.

Its forces are exhausted, undersupplied, and increasingly confined to a few coastal strongholds.

And when the British General Charles Cornwallis moves his battered army to Yorktown, Virginia, Washington sees an opportunity to strike a decisive blow.

His forces surround the city by land, while America's allies the French cut off any escape by sea.

There's nowhere for the British to go.

And on October 19th, 1781, Cornwallis and his men surrender at Yorktown.

It brings an end to the last major campaign of the conflict, and soon after, the government in London decides to sue for peace.

The war is over.

Did you know we defeated the British fleet at Sullivan's Island before we even signed the Declaration of Independence? Did you know that after we got stomped at Camden, a little while later we went up to Kings Mountain and we stomped them? And then we went over to, cowpens and we stomped them again.

And you know what Lord Cornwallis said? He said, the British battle is over.

The Southern strategy has failed.

We cannot beat these people in South Carolina.

We'd be celebrating him, of course.

And Saratoga... was critical because that victory was the impetus to France creating the Franco-American alliance and coming in on our side in the revolution, which eventually led in 1781 to de Grasse with the French fleet bottling in Cornwallis for the surrender at yorktown and none of that would have happened if we hadn't been successful at saratoga and we would not have been successful at saratoga without the french muskets and all those guns supplement supplemented by private gunsmiths as recognized yes i

recall we were so desperate for arms that wasn't benjamin franklin considering uh and issuing uh basically bows and arrows just because there was a lack of arms yeah we were gonna

have armed the continentals and washington ordered that the countryside be scoured for basically anything that would shoot, and any of the guns that were seized at the time, and these muskets too, were all surcharged with U.S., on the metal.

A unique street is this endless highway of New York City, which was once but an insignificant Indian trail tipping the rocky ridge that constituted the backbone of Manhattan Island, and was used by the Manahatas when making their peregrinations to and from the sea.

A romantic history has this old thoroughfare from its aboriginal days down to these, its most civilized and cosmopolitan period, and proud is the city of this ancient cradle of new york for broadway antedates even the days of henry hudson the time from which almost everything pertaining to the metropolis is reckoned indeed broadway antedates european highways for while europe boasts of her old roads made centuries back when civilization commenced to emerge from the dark ages new york can go the old world one better broadway always was skipping history, passing the days when Manhattan Island was sold for $24, passing the days of Dutch and British rule, of the period when colonial society centered on lower Broadway, when Lord Cornwallis, Lord Howe, and Sir Henry Clinton, Talleyrand, General Gates, Benedict Arnold, and other celebrities lived there, when President Washington, during his short sojourn in the city, finding Cherry Hill, now the Manhattan terminus of the Brooklyn Bridge, too far out in the country to enable him to be in the social swim, moved down nearly opposite Wall Street, and passing scores of other interesting and important events in the street's national, municipal, commercial, and social history.

We take it as it is today.

What a place Broadway is, and what a vast amount of entertainment can be gained by a visit to it.