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Lord Cornwallis said nothing to Washington upon his surrender at Yorktown, because they never met. Cornwallis could not bring himself to hand over his sword to the American commander, so he sent his second in command, General Charles O'Hara to do it for him, claiming indisposition. Washington had his own second in command Gemeral Benjamin Lincoln accept the surrender.
general pickett IMPROVEMENT. After the death of Stonewall Jackson at Chancellorsville the second in command was Gen. James Longstreet.
Gen. Charles Cornwallis surrendered to George Washington at Yorktown in 1786 bringing the American Revolution to an end. Gen. Cornwallis sent his second in command, Charles O'Hara, who attempted to deliver Cornwallis's sword to French general, Comte de Rochambeau. But Rochambeau directed O'Hara to American General George Washington, who coolly steered the British officer to Washington's own second in command, Major General Benjamin Lincoln.
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Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson was his favorite second in command.