1 2 [transitive] sit somebody + adv./prep. to put somebody in a sitting position He lifted the child and sat her on the wall. 2  She sat him down in front of the fire with a hot drink. 3  3 [intransitive] to be in a particular place + adv./prep. 4  A large bus was sitting outside.
The British Surrender at Yorktown October 19, 1781. America declared its independence in 1776, but it took another five years to win freedom from the British. That day came on October 19, 1781, when the British General Charles Cornwallis surrendered his troops in Yorktown, Virginia. General Cornwallis brought 8,000 British troops to Yorktown. They expected help from British ships sent from New York.
The Battle of Yorktown in 1781 was the last major land battle of the American Revolutionary War. A significant victory for George Washington's colonial army, it disheartened the British, encouraged the Americans and French, and prompted negotiations to end the war.