Object Details
- Lincoln, Benjamin
- Description
- Physical Description
- Forged steel with a stained ivory-and-silvered guard and knuckle bow. Scabbard is leather with metal trim.
- Specific History
- Sword and scabbard carried by Major General Benjamin Lincoln throughout the Revolutionary War. General Lincoln played a major role in accepting the surrender at Yorktown.
- General History
- Surrender at Yorktown
- General Charles Conrwallis was so mortified by his defeat that he dispatched his second-in-command, Brigadier General Charles O'Hara, to surrender his forces. When O'Hara offered Cornwallis's sword to George Washington, Washington, in keeping with the rigid hierarchies of military protocol, asked his second-in-command, Major General Benjamin Lincoln, to accept it.
- During the surrender ceremonies on the afternoon of October 19, 1781, British Brigadier General Charles O'Hara led a column of British troops out of Yorktown. He surrendered to Major General Benjamin Lincoln, who then directed British troops to lay down their weapons.
- Credit Line
- Mrs. Henry K. Cowen
- ID Number
- AF.65512M
- catalog number
- 65512
- accession number
- 226019
- Object Name
- Sword
- Other Terms
- Sword; Edged Weapons
- Measurements
- overall: 4 1/4 in x 31 in x 2 in; 10.795 cm x 78.74 cm x 5.08 cm
- used
- United States
- See more items in
- Military and Society: Armed Forces History, Military
- Military
- Exhibition
- Price of Freedom
- Exhibition Location
- National Museum of American History
- National Museum of American History
- related event
- American Revolution
- Revolution and the New Nation
- Record ID
- nmah_438723
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a2-5802-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
