Excerpt from Yorktown: Climax of the Revolution Here also are estimates of the Significance of the surrender by a contemporary American Statesman who was in position to View its immediate effects on the watching European world, by an American President who saw Yorktown against the background of a century's independent national development, and by the com mission which prepared the sesquicentennial celebration of the event in 1931. There has been added only sufficient new narrative to fill the Obvious gaps in the accounts of contemporaries. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.