{"id":7844,"date":"2026-10-19T00:20:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T04:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=7844"},"modified":"2025-12-19T01:11:02","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T06:11:02","slug":"informal-end-to-revolutionary-war-1781","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=7844","title":{"rendered":"Informal End to Revolutionary War &#8211; 1781"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11059\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11059\" class=\"wp-image-11059 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Cornwallis-Surrender-300x222.jpg\" alt=\"Cornwallis Surrenders\" width=\"300\" height=\"222\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-11059\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cornwallis Surrenders<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Yorktown Day marks the surrender of General Lord Cornwallis and his troops to George Washington in 1781<\/strong>. This surrender virtually ended the Revolutionary War. No other major battles occurred after this date, and the official peace agreement, the Treaty of Paris, was signed September 3, 1783.\u00a0Children can learn more at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americaslibrary.gov\/jb\/revolut\/jb_revolut_yorktown_1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Yorktown Day<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yorktown Day marks the surrender of General Lord Cornwallis and his troops to George Washington in 1781. This surrender virtually ended the Revolutionary War. No other major battles occurred after this date, and the official peace agreement, the Treaty of Paris, was signed September 3, 1783.\u00a0Children can learn more at: Yorktown Day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4925,3101,28,5955,1429,834,3100],"class_list":["post-7844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4925","tag-general-lord-cornwallis","tag-george-washington","tag-october-19","tag-revolutionary-war","tag-treaty-of-paris","tag-yorktown-day","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7844"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29803,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7844\/revisions\/29803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}