Benjamin Lincoln

Benjamin Lincoln (January 24, 1733 – May 9, 1810) is an American army officer.

He serves as a major general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War.

He is notable for being present at three major surrenders during the war: he attends John Burgoyne's surrender of a British army after the Battles of Saratoga, he oversees the largest American surrender of the war at the 1780 Siege of Charleston, and he formally accepts the British surrender at Yorktown.

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