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The Columbian Complex: The Impulse to National Consolidation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2017

Jonathan Messerli
Jonathan Messerli*
Affiliation:
Teachers College, Columbia University
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On October 19, 1781, at Yorktown, Virginia, in a military setting framed by symmetrical rows of soldiers bearing the colors of three nations, Charles Cornwallis, Major General of the British forces in South Carolina, surrendered his army to George Washington. As news spread up and down the coast and westward to inland villages and farms, citizens congregated for impromptu celebrations. No longer colonials, the victors now could transmute the hardships and tragedies of the war into memories of heroic deeds and patriotic sacrifices, and, for the moment, forget the uncertainties of peace and independence.

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The New Republic I
Information
History of Education Quarterly , Volume 7 , Issue 4 , Winter 1967 , pp. 417 - 431
Copyright
Copyright © 1967 by New York University 

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