[BunnySlippers]

Lemuel Cook

Witnessed the British surrender at Yorktown, the event that guaranteed American independence.

Of the event, he said, 'Washington ordered that there should be no laughing at the British; said it was bad enough to surrender without being insulted.

'The army came out with guns clubbed on their backs. They were paraded on a great smooth lot, and there they stacked their arms.'

[cripplecreek]

'Washington ordered that there should be no laughing at the British; said it was bad enough to surrender without being insulted.

Washington was a stickler for etiquette. Just read Washington's Rules of Civility and you can see where he got it.