The British surrendering their arms to Gen. Washington after the defeat at York Town in Virginia, October 1781: To the defenders of American Independence This Print is most respectfully inscribed by their Fellow Citizen. Jn. Fcis. Renault, Assistant Secretary to the Count de Grasse, and Engineer to the French Army, at the Siege of York

Color engraving by Tanner, Vallance, Kearny and W. Allen after Renault; British officers at left surrendering to Washington and French and American officers at right, allegorical figures, monuments and landscape in background. Names listed below: Lincoln, Rochambeau, Hamilton, Washington, Knox, De Lauzun, Nelson, La Fayette, Tarleton, Cornwallis, Abercrombie, O'Hara, Symmonds, Dundas, Chewton. Color engraving by Tanner, Vallance, Kearny and W. Allen after Renault; British officers at left surrendering to Washington and French and American officers at right, allegorical figures, monuments and landscape in background. Names listed below: Lincoln, Rochambeau, Hamilton, Washington, Knox, De Lauzun, Nelson, La Fayette, Tarleton, Cornwallis, Abercrombie, O'Hara, Symmonds, Dundas, Chewton. Large oblong folio, matted; margins entirely cut away except at bottom; slightly soiled and torn. N.Y., Kennedy Galleries, 1943.
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