True History - Veritas Card #24 (Red Card) - Yorktown and the Treaty of Paris

Yorktown and the Treaty of Paris - 1781, 1783

  Now the Americans were fighting against the British. When will it ever end? What was left of the British army was under General Cornwallis at the Yorktown peninsula in the Chesapeake Bay. Now George Washington had it in his mind to trap the British army and came up with a plan. The British were cut off from the sea because French ships blockaded the entrance to the Chesapeake Bay. Now the American troops surrounded them by land. The British were forced to surrender in 1781.
   The Americans played 'Yankee Doodle' at the surrender. Here are the words to the song:
Yankee Doodle went to town,
A-riding on a pony;
He stuck a feather in his hat,
And call it macaroni.


The British played 'The World Turned Upside Down'. 
The Treaty of Paris came about in 1783, in which both the British and American colonies signed. The Treaty recognized the independence of the American colonies. The negotiators of the Treaty were John Adams and Benjamin Franklin.
   Americans were still 13 separate colonies at this time, even though the Treaty was signed and gave them independence. The colonies acquired a lot of land in the west which extended all the way to the Mississippi River.