This article is from several days ago, before the Danchenko trial concluded. It ends with this:

https://justthenews.com/accountability/russia-and-ukraine-scandals/biggest-impact-john-durhams-prosecution-steele-dossier?utm_source=tr&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=trjs

In “any investigation of potential collusion between the Russian Government and a political campaign, it is appropriate and necessary for the FBI to consider whether information it receives via foreign nationals may be a product of Russian intelligence efforts or disinformation,” Durham wrote.

It is that sentiment that most concerns those in Congress who have oversight of the FBI. Multiple lawmakers told Just the News that it seemed irrational for the bureau to keep Danchenko as a paid informant when they suspected, dating to 2008, that he was tied to Russian intelligence, detected he was deceptive in 2017 and immediately found contradictions between what Steele and Danchenko claimed was their intelligence.

“The fact that they took American tax dollars to pay someone that they knew was a liar, to, I would assume, lie to them some more makes absolutely no sense,” said Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan, the top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee and the panel’s likely chairman if the GOP wins control of Congress.

Added Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), a key member of the Senate Judiciary Committee: “There is a political cabal inside the FBI that has to be dealt with. It’s inside the Department of Justice also. And the Danchenko revelation that he was on the FBI payroll for three years … They’re paying him for cooking up information for investigating Donald Trump.”

Retired Rep. Devin Nunes said the revelation that Danchenko was a paid FBI informant was kept from the House Intelligence Committee in 2017-18 during its Russia collusion probe, an omission he said was critical.

“This is now the strongest evidence we have seen that they obstructed — the FBI, DOJ, et al —obstructed Congress’ investigation,” Nunes said.

Kash Patel, the former chief investigative counsel for the House Intelligence Committee who helped Nunes unravel the false Russia collusion narrative, said Durham’s work has raised serious questions about the FBI’s use of confidential human sources that must be dealt with in the next session of Congress.

“John Durham was like the domino that sort of knocked it back here, when he told the world that Igor Danchenko was a confidential human source,” Patel said.

The FBI has admitted significant failures in the Russia probe and made widespread reforms to FISA warrants and denies politics had anything to do with the decision to pursue the investigation. But Patel said the reforms thus far haven’t gone far enough to address the issue of informants.

“I think this John Durham prosecution is going to come full circle and explode the confidential human source corruption cover up network,” he said.

On October 19, 1781, British General Charles Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown.

The Battle of Yorktown was the last major battle of the American Revolution. Although fighting did continue in various areas, peace negotiations began the following spring and eventually brought the war to an end.

The British had successfully conquered Georgia and South Carolina in 1779 and 1780. When General Cornwallis invaded North Carolina, however, things didn’t go so well. In the spring of 1781, Cornwallis was forced to the coast for resupplying and regrouping. He marched to Virginia instead, thinking it would be easier to conquer than North Carolina had proved to be.

After arriving in Virginia, Cornwallis received orders from his superior, General Henry Clinton, in New York, to make a deep water port on the Chesapeake, where supplies and reinforcements from New York could be landed. Cornwallis marched to Yorktown in the summer of 1781 and began reinforcements.

George Washington, meanwhile, left New York with French General, the Comte de Rochambeau, with 7,000 soldiers. They met with the Marquis de Lafayette and his army in Virginia, while French Admiral, the Comte de Grasse, fought off a British fleet bringing reinforcements to Cornwallis and landed thousands more French soldiers. In all, 17,000 French and American troops surrounded Yorktown.

The allies began bombarding Yorktown after digging a siege trench. For days, bombs rained down on Cornwallis who began running out of food and ammunition. After nearly two weeks of resisting, Cornwallis knew reinforcements from New York would not arrive in time and he reluctantly sent out a drummer with a white flag on October 17.

Negotiations were held over the next two days at the home of Augustine Moore, which is still standing. On the 19th, the official surrender ceremony was held. The American and French soldiers marched into town and the British soldiers marched between the two allies and laid down their arms. British drummers and fifers played a popular British song called “The World Turned Upside Down,” as the troops surrendered…

The surrender at Yorktown finally convinced Parliament that war with the colonists was futile. Peace negotiations began the following spring. Fighting did continue in the colonies and around the globe after the Battle of Yorktown, but the war finally came to an end when the Treaty of Paris was signed on September 3, 1783.

https://www.revolutionary-war-and-beyond.com/cornwallis-surrenders-at-yorktown.html