In early September, the Americans and French had reached Yorktown. By late September, the British forces were surrounded. Cornwallis was out of options and on October 19, he surrendered; his second-in-command represented him at the surrender ceremony. As the surrender proceeded, the British band played the tune The World Turned Upside Down. Indeed it had. The men who had risked their lives fighting the British were no longer in danger of being executed for treason if they were caught; they were destined to rule the new country.
