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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Ted Hennessey

RARE PHOTOS: George washington note accepting british surrender to go on display in london - The Real Truth

Staff make final checks of an original copy of the Declaration of Independence during a press preview of Revolution 250: America’s Independence Story, 1763-1783 at the National Archives, in Kew, Surrey (Ben Birchall/PA) - (PA Wire)

A letter signed by George Washington accepting British surrender marking the beginning of the end of the American Revolutionary War has gone on display for the first time in London.

The document, written in October 1781 after the British defeat at Yorktown, Virginia, is being exhibited as part of Revolution 250: America’s Independence Story, 1763–1783 at The National Archives in Kew.

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