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When Americans think of world wars, they picture 20th-century scenes-the blood-drenched trenches at the Battle of the Somme where a million men were injured or killed in 1916, the German blitz that rained death down on London night after night during the autumn of 1940, or the ugly mushroom cloud rising like a behemoth above Hiroshima in August 1945.Ī new exhibition at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C., invites Americans to recognize another world war-one that has been traditionally envisioned as a quaint and simple confrontation between a ragtag army of rebellious colonists and a king’s mighty military force of red-coated Brits. NMAH, on loan from the collection of Nicholas Taubman

This secondary version was created in 1786 for French General Comte de Rochambeau, the commander of the French forces at Yorktown The original is at the Palace of Versailles. This painting by Louis-Nicolas Van Blarenberghe, court painter of battles to France’s King Louis XVI, depicts the 1781 formal surrender of the British army at Yorktown, Virginia.