* 1781 – At Yorktown, Virginia, representatives of British commander Lord Cornwallis handed over Cornwallis ' sword and formally surrendered to George Washington and the comte de Rochambeau.

He was the commander of the Northern Department three times between 1778 and 1781.

Primarily known as a commander of light dragoons, mounted troops under Washington's command engaged in a number of notable battles in the Carolinas during the campaigns of 1780 and 1781.

He was given command of a battalion of light infantry on October 1, 1781, when its commander was killed.

On 14 March 1781, Lord Cornwallis, the British commander, was informed that General Richard Butler was marching to attack his army.

1740 – 1781 ) was a captain in the Continental Navy during the American Revolutionary War, commander of the which was lost at sea.

He was appointed colonel and commander of all engineers in the Continental Army, July 1777 ; brigadier general, November 17, 1777 ; commander, Corps of Engineers, May 1779 ; and major general ( Brevet ), November 16, 1781.

He led the ultimately successful campaign in 1780 and 1781 against the British " Southern Strategy " as commander of the Southern Department.

By 1781 he had risen to become commander of the North American station.

* Francis Samuel Drake, fourth son of Francis Henry ; British Admiral, commander of lead division at the Battle of the Chesapeake, 1781

Baron Jan Leon Hipolit Kozietulski ( 1781 – 1821 ) was a Polish noble, military commander and an officer of the armed forces of the Duchy of Warsaw during the Napoleonic Wars.

In one of those forays, an unusually strong squadron, under admiral Johan Zoutman and his second-in-command, rear-admiral Jan Hendrik van Kinsbergen, encountered in August, 1781 a British squadron of about equal strength under admiral Hyde Parker in the Battle of Dogger Bank, which ended in a tactical draw.

Near the end of the war, the Continental Army was augmented by a French expeditionary force ( under General Rochambeau ) and a squadron of the French navy ( under the Comte de Barras ), and in the late summer of 1781 the main body of the army travelled south to Virginia to rendezvous with the French West Indies fleet under Admiral Comte de Grasse.

Renamed HMS Iris, in 1781 she was captured by a French squadron.

In 1781 the American revolution induced the Dutch Republic to join with the Bourbon side against the British, a large fleet under Admiral Lord Rodney's command was sent to the West Indies, and after having made some seizures in the Caribbean Islands, a squadron was detached to take possession of the colonies of Essequebo and Demerara, which was accomplished without much difficulty.

On 13 March 1781, he fought the French Newport squadron, at the Battle of Cape Henry, before returning to England.

* During the War of American Independence, a Royal Navy squadron fought a Dutch squadron on 5 August 1781 in the Battle of Dogger Bank.

In 1781 a British squadron under Commodore George Johnstone seized six Dutch East Indiamen, which, fearing an attack on Cape Town, had taken refuge in Saldanha Bay.

He sent the Academy two paintings, and both were included in the Salon of 1781, a high honor.

Messier's final catalogue was included in the Connaissance des Temps for 1784 ( published in 1781 ).

Charles Messier then compiled a catalog of 103 " nebulae " ( now called Messier objects, which included what are now known to be galaxies ) by 1781 ; his interest was detecting comets, and these were objects that might be mistaken for them, wasting time.

The tradition began in 1781, when Antoine Court de Gébelin, a Swiss clergyman, published Le Monde Primitif, a speculative study which included religious symbolism and its survival in the modern world.

Blackstone was particularly good at Greek, mathematics and poetry, with his notes on William Shakespeare being included in George Steevens ' 1781 edition of Shakespeare's plays.

The first class of new members, chosen by the Academy in 1781, included Benjamin Franklin and George Washington as well as several foreign honorary members.

The city symbol in 1781 was changed to one which included the symbol of the Russian empire and five arrows.

In 1781 Haldimand's efforts on behalf of the British cause included engaging in negotiations with political representatives of the Vermont Republic, which had declared its independence from the state of New York in 1777 after long-standing disputes over jurisdiction.

" Scott included Mount Henneth ( 1781 ), Barham Downs ( 1784 ), and James Wallace ( 1792 ) in his series of Ballantyne novels.

After the discovery of Messier 101, 102 and 103 in 1781, Messier himself had no occasion to carry out more detailed observations of these clusters and included them as a last-minute addition to his catalogue using the data of Méchain.

Master-founders at Aldbourne included Robert Cor ( active 1694 – 1724 ), William Cor ( active 1696 – 1722 ), Oliver Cor ( active 1725 – 27 ), John Cor ( active 1728 – 50 ), John Stares ( active 1744 – 46 ), Edward Read ( active 1751 – 57 ), Edne Witts ( active 1759 – 74 ), Robert I Wells ( active 1760 – 81 ), Robert II Wells ( active 1781 – 93 ), James Wells ( active 1792 – 1826 ).

The arrival of Lord Macartney as governor of Madras in the summer of 1781 included news of war with the Dutch Republic.

Macartney ordered the seizure of the Dutch outposts in India, and the British captured the main Dutch outpost at Negapatam after three weeks of siege in November 1781 against defenses that included 2, 000 of Hyder Ali's men.

Her six brothers and sisters included Edward Taylor ( 1784 – 1863 ), a singer and music professor, John Taylor ( 1779 – 1863 ), a mining engineer, Richard Taylor ( 1781 – 1858 ), a printer and editor and publisher of scientific works.

Established in 1781 as the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester, by Thomas Percival, Thomas Barnes and Thomas Henry, other prominent members have included Robert Owen, John Dalton, James Prescott Joule, Tom Kilburn, Peter Mark Roget, Ernest Rutherford and Joseph Whitworth.

De Gébelin in an essay included in his Le Monde primitif, analysé et comparé avec le monde moderne (" The Primeval World, Analyzed and Compared to the Modern World "), volume viii, 1781.

His books included Voyage à la Nouvelle-Guinée ( 1776 ) and Voyage aux Indes orientales et à la Chine, fait depuis 1774 jusqu ' à 1781 ( 1782 ).

In 1781 he was granted extensive property above New Orleans which included the present-day Audubon Park.

There, he published Voyage dans l ' Amerique meridionale depuis 1781 jusqu ' en 1801 ( 1809 ), which included his observations on many topics ranging from the geography of the region to characteristics of the many indigenous groups in the region.

This painting, which was the triumph of the Salon of 1781, included a portrayal of the Borghese Gladiator ( Ménageot probably having seen it at the Villa Borghese during his stay at the French Academy in Rome from 1769 to 1774 ), although this was an anachronism since Leonardo died in 1519, about ninety years before the statue was discovered.

By 1781 three more societies had been established in Birmingham, with a fourth in the nearby town of Dudley ; and 19 more formed in Birmingham between 1782 and 1795.

Banks was made a baronet in 1781, three years after being elected president of the Royal Society.

Martini published a three volume history titled Storia della musica ( History of Music ) between 1757 and 1781.

In 1781 the legislature divided the northernmost county, Cumberland, into three counties: Windham and Windsor, located about where they are now.

In 1781 the legislature divided the northernmost county, Cumberland, into three counties: Windham and Windsor, located about where they are now.

George Washington drew upon that experience in late February 1781, placing LaFayette in command of three regiments of light infantry from New England and New Jersey.

The British took Negapatam after three weeks of siege in October and November 1781.

By 1781, violent storms in the 1700s had led to Bant becoming three islands.

Between 1778 and 1781 he visited England three times, developing a friendship with Sir Joseph Banks.

They were issued with six different obverses and three reverses in 1761, 1763 – 79, 1781 – 99, and 1813.

They were issued with seven different obverses and three reverses in 1762-1766, 1768, 1769, 1772 – 1779, 1781, 1783 – 1798, 1800 – 1806, 1808 – 1811 and 1813.

Elizabeth gave birth to three more girls: Elizabeth Franks on 17 October 1779 ; Mira ( or Myra ) in 1781 ; and Abigail in September 1783.

He went to Venice in 1781 where he spent three years examining the library, his expenses being paid by the French government.

A pension was awarded to his mother and three sisters not long after his death, and his brother William André was made a baronet in his honour in 1781 ( see André baronets ).

In 1774 he went into business as a lawyer, and in 1781 married Jane, second daughter of William Griffies, a Liverpool tradesman ; they had seven sons and three daughters.

The city of Augusta changed hands three times during the war, finally returning to American possession in July 1781.

Subsequently, he was a member of the House of Assembly for the 1780 / 81 and 1781 / 82 sessions, and returned to the Legislative Council, for three sessions from 1782 / 83 through 1784 / 85.

Tarleton in his book A history of the campaigns of 1780 and 1781 reported a total of 5, 283 captured, including three signers of the Declaration of Independence: Edward Rutledge, Arthur Middleton and Thomas Heyward, Jr.

Lincoln married Martha Waldo ( 1761 – 1828 ) of Worcester in 1781, with whom he had ten children ( three of whom died young ).

In 1781, this county was broken up into three counties in Vermont and one that eventually became part of New Hampshire.

A further three survived into adulthood: Elisabeth Juliane Friederica ( 1726 – 1781 ) who married Bach's pupil Johann Christoph Altnikol, Johanna Carolina ( 1737 – 1781 ) and Regina Susanna ( 1742 – 1809 )

According to some records, he left the Land of Israel three times ( 1755, 1770, and 1781 ), living in Hebron in the meantime.

While the British army were spreading havoc and desolation all around them, by their plundering and burnings in Virginia, in 1781, Francisco had been reconnoitring, and while stopping at the house of a Mr. V ---, then in Amelia, now Nottoway county, nine of Tarleton's cavalry came up, with three negroes, and told him he was their prisoner.