After the Surrender at Yorktown

Near this place on October 19, 1781, a surrender occurred one hour after the Surrender at Yorktown. The British troops under Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton surrendered to the French Brigadier General M. de Choisy, Commander of the French and American forces, thus ending British rule in America.

Marker is on Vernon Street near Riverview Street, on the right when traveling south.

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