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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve
I hate to see this turn into an actual political debate, but I have to add to seafarer's comments.
Cornwallis was forced to surrender to Washington at Yorktown partly because he desperately needed reinforcements, and French admiral De Grasse's fleet kept that from happening by defeating the fleet of admiral Graves. Cornwallis, realizing his position was now untenable, claimed illness and sent his second in command, general O'Hara, to surrender. O'Hara tried to surrender to French general Rochambeau. Rochambeau indicated that it was Washington's victory, not his. He then attempted to surrender to Washington, but Washington indicated that the hapless O'Hara would have to surrender to his second, general Lincoln.
Those facts are unbendable, and I think there was taunting aplenty going around.
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I wasn't trying to pick a fight, or even stir the pot. And I get the humor in the original posting. It's just that the joke shouldn't have used the word revoke, since it does not apply. You cannot revoke something that you never gave in the first place, and the Declaration of Independence was just that, an autonomous declaration, which those declaring it made legitimate by force of arms.