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One British army under General Cornwallis surrendered in 1781 at Yorktown. This did not result in a full surrender by the British. The British Army and Navy continued to hold all of the major seaports until a final treaty was accepted by both sides in 1783.

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The fighting ended on 19 October 1781 when British Lieutenant General Charles Cornwallis surrendered his 7,000 soldiers to a combined force of American and French troops led by General George Washington and the Comte de Rochambeau. The actual end of the Revolutionary War came in 1783 with the British and American governments signing the Treaty of Paris on 3 September 1783.

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Most historians say that the Battle of Yorktown was the end of the Revolutionary War; Date of Surrender: 19th October 1781. The formal end of the war was September 3, 1783.

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1783 in Yorktown, Virginia

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1781

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