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on this day in 1781, the British lose the battle of Yorktown in VA, effectively ending the Revolutionary War. Without the assistance of other countries like France, Spain and the Dutch Republic, America would not have prevailed. We didn't win our freedom alone.

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happy bday writer/artist Emma Bell Miles, b. 1879, Evansville, IN "I am longing for the silence and the shadow, I am dying for the starlight and the dawn; For the nightwind crying free on the hills where I would be, For the forest and the waters and the sun."

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RIP Irish writer Jonathan Swift, died this day 1745. “May you live every day of your life.” “It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.” “I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.”

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OTD in 1781: British commander Lord Charles Cornwallis surrenders to Americans under Gen. George Washington at Yorktown, VA, effectively ending Amer. Revolution. Formal peace negotiations ensued, resulting in 1783 Treaty of Paris. Image: John Trumbull, “Surrender of Lord Cornwallis.” Public domain.

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