How did the Colonies win the American War of Independence?

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In the morning of October the seventeenth, seventeen eighty one. A drummer boy. Beat out the parley. A particular rhythm on the drum recognizable to friend and foe alike.

It was a signal. The British wanted to talk. As was the white handkerchief tied to the end of the sword of a British officer, a man who mounted the parapet on the British defence's uh stronghold on the shores of the Chesapeake. In Virginia.

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