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Send us Ioc. for sample bottle to cover postage. RAY S. G. MFG. CO., Inc. 44 Wakeman Ave., Newark, N. J. Please mention this Magazine. Please mention The American Monthly Magazine when writing to advertisers. VOL. XXXVII DECEMBER, 1910 No. 6 Yorktown-The Lesson That It Teaches By Curtis Guild The Nineteenth of April (the anniversary of the Lexington and Concord Fight), the Seventeenth of March (the anniversary of the first American victory, the Evacuation of Boston) are annually celebrated as public holidays in Massachusetts. The Seventeenth of October, universally neglected, is, if anything, more memorable. and more significant than either of these two dates. The same date marks not merely one but two great crowning National victories of the Revolution. On October 17, 1777, after Bennington, Oriskany, and Saratoga, Burgoyne surrendered his entire army. On October 17, 1781, after the successful storming of the redoubts by the Americans and French at Yorktown came, if not the formal surrender, at least the real end of the American Revolution. Here is the brief account of the event in the journal of Col. Jonathan Trumbull, who succeeded Alexander Hamilton as Washington's private secretary: "17th. Expect to begin our new roar of cannon, mortars, etc., but are prevented by the appearance of a flag from his Lordship, which bears a letter proposing a sessation (sic) of hostilities and a conference of commissioners to consider on terms for the surrender of the ports of York and Gloucester. This produces a correspondence-the more honorable to our General, as it was the first message or letter that had ever passed between the two Commanders, and was begun on the part of the British Hero Judged by modern military standards the Siege of Yorktown would not rank as a very remarkable exploit. It does not compare, for example, with the Siege of Santiago during the Spanish-American War. The Siege of Santiago in the Spanish War lasted for six weeks, double the time of the Siege of Yorktown. The forces engaged were also double those at Yorktown. At Santiago, moreover, not only was the town taken, but the fleet of the defeated party was absolutely captured or destroyed. At Yorktown the British fleet was merely repulsed, not captured, the United States won only with the assistance of a foreign power, there was no very great loss of life, and the actual fighting was scarcely more than that of a modern reconnaissance in force. Victories are, however, measured not by loss of life but by results and measured by results Yorktown was as important as Salamis or Chalons sur Marne, or Tours, or Granada, or Lepanto, or Lutzen, or Marston Moor, or Waterloo, or Gettysburg. The late Paul Leicester Ford and that school of historical writers who have elab |