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. By late September Patriot-French forces completely surrounded Yorktown trapped the British army and prevented British reinforcements from Clinton in the North while the French Navy was victorious at the Battle of the Chesapeake the final American offensive was begun with a shot fired by Washington the siege ended with a British surrender on October 19 1781; over 7,000 British soldiers were captured in the last major land battle of the American Revolutionary War. Washington negotiated the terms of surrender for two days and the official signing ceremony took place on October 19; Cornwallis in fact claimed illness and was absent sending General Charles O'Hara as his proxy. As a gesture of goodwill Washington held a dinner for the American French and British generals all of whom fraternized on friendly terms and identified with one another as members of the same professional military caste. In the final months of his presidency Washington was assailed by his political foes and a partisan press who accused him of being ambitious and greedy while he argued that he had taken no salary during the war and had risked his life in battle He regarded the press as a disuniting "diabolical" force of falsehoods sentiments that he expressed in his Farewell Address. At the end of his second term Washington retired for personal and political reasons dismayed with personal attacks and to ensure that a truly contested presidential election could be held He did not feel bound to a two-term limit but his retirement set a significant precedent Washington is often credited with setting the principal of a two-term presidency but it was Thomas Jefferson who first refused to run for a third term on political grounds. . Isaac Low New York 1 Yes Indianapolis Indiana USA (1825), Emancipation Proclamation Main article: Southern theater of the American Revolutionary War, Nauru: Nauru a microstate of only 21 square kilometres (8.1 sq mi) has no distinct capital city but has a capital district instead. . .

! Capital cities that also serve as the prime economic population cultural or intellectual centres of a nation or an empire are sometimes referred to as primate cities Examples are Athens Bangkok Brussels Copenhagen Cairo London Mexico City Paris Seoul and Tokyo. .