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An Old Catalpa at Moore House, Yorktown
Battlefield
Old Catalpa Tree on Yorktown Battlefield: Catalpa
tree in Moore House yard on Yorktown Battlefield near Yorktown, Virginia.
The Moore House was the place where Americans and British drafted British terms
of surrender on August 18, 1781 which ended the American Revolution. This
last major battle of the American Revolutionary War secured the independence for
the United States and significantly changed the course of world history.
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