Reading Articles of Capitulation, Yorktown | Alexandria
Read Articles of Capitulation, Yorktown by Charles O'Hara. Surrendering British dignity, this iconic document unveils how pride crumbles in defeat. O'Hara's forced bow to Washington's subordinate revealed power's shifting theater - reminding us that true authority lies not in pomp but in principled resistance to ceremony. History's greatest reversals often hide in small symbolic gestures.