August 19

The American Revolutionary War ended on October 19, 1781 when England’s Lord Cornwallis surrendered to General George Washington at the head of the combined American and French troops at the culmination of the Siege of Yorktown. Not withstanding Cornwallis’ surrender, it took a while for everyone to find out that the Americans had won the war. On the 19th of August in 1782, ten months after the British threw in the towel, the last battle of the Revolutionary War took place near the Blue River in Mount Olivet, Kentucky. This confrontation came to be known as the Battle of Blue Licks. The legendary Kentucky frontiersman Daniel Boone led the combined forces of French and American soldiers.