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"The World Turned Upside Down" is an English ballad. It was first published on a broadside in the middle of the 1640s as a protest against the policies of Parliament relating to the celebration of Christmas.
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Since 1881, a story has circulated among some Americans that the British played a march called “The World Turned Upside Down” (hereafter WTUD or Yorktown/WTUD) during their surrender at Yorktown in October 1781.
May 29, 2018 · “Legend holds that the British fifes and drums played The World Turned Upside Down as the Redcoats marched out from behind their ramparts to stack their arms at Washington’s feet. But did it actually happen?”
Oct 13, 2022 · Sung by Maddy Prior and the Carnival Band. "The World Turned Upside Down" is an English ballad. It was first published on a broadside in the middle of the 1640s as a protest against the...
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The Allied armies marched hundreds of miles from their headquarters north of New York City to Yorktown, making theirs the largest troop movement of the American Revolution. They surprised the British in a siege that turned the tide toward an American victory in the War for Independence.
British band (or bands) played a march called 'The World Turned Upside Down."' Aside from the basic questions of whether or not it happened, or whether there was any such British march, there are several other problems with this phrase. It often has been interpret-ed as implying a single tune was played. But eighteenth-century
Oct 26, 2015 · Near the end of the first act, “Yorktown (The World Turned Upside Down)” quickly recaps the historic battle, with Alexander Hamilton and the Marquis de Lafayette playing key roles. Hamilton narrates the closing action:
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