On the recordOctober 18, 1931
No person here present, no schoolchild of the millions listening in on this occasion, needs reminder of the significance of the Battle of Yorktown.
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Address on the 150th Anniversary of the Surrender of General Cornwallis at Yorktown, Virginia.
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