British Gen. Cornwallis’s sword, believed to be the one surrendered to Americans at Yorktown in 1781, is on display at the ...

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“There it is,” he said — the sword of British Gen. Charles Cornwallis that, experts theorize, was presented to the Americans during the British surrender at Yorktown on Oct. 19, 1781.

Hampton remained on the front lines of the American Revolution, from the Battle of Hampton in 1775 to the American victory at Yorktown in 1781.