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King Charles III celebrated the "momentous occasion" of the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States and hailed its many achievements since declaring Independence from Britain in 1776.

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Bestselling author and cultural commentator Eric Metaxas set out with the intention to tell the true story of the American Revolution.

“I said, ‘I just want to write a very compelling, very readable, fun, gallop-through-our-history [book],’” he tells Glenn Beck.

But as Metaxas researched, he kept coming across details from our history that “astonished” him.

One of those details had to do with none other than America’s first president. Many modern historians have labeled Washington a deist — that is, one who believes in a distant God who created the world but does not intervene in human affairs. These are generally the same people who argue that America was not founded as a Christian nation.

Metaxas calls the claim that Washington was a deist "baloney."

“Washington was no deist. What a joke. What a lie,” he exclaims.

“These were men of profound Christian faith who set about doing something that had never been done since the Israelites were in the Sinai wilderness, where they left Pharaoh and left Egypt and looked directly to God without an earthly king. ... This is what the founders were trying to do,” he explains.

All of the founders, he argues, understood that the goal was to “bring the Bible into government.”

“I was so overwhelmed by the explicitly Christian nature of what was going on. ... Everywhere you look, this narrative comes out. It is inescapable,” Metaxas tells Glenn, noting that his book is not “a Christian book” but “a book of American history.”

For years, Glenn has been trying to debunk the same misleading narrative.

“In this one letter [George Washington wrote], I think it’s 24 different scriptures are quoted without him quoting it. It’s just part of his language,” he says.

Glenn notes that there are numerous accounts of the founders, including Washington, speaking about miracles.

“A deist cannot believe in miracles,” he remarks.

Agreeing, Metaxas says, “It is our duty to know this.”

But he could never find a book that told the full truth about America’s birth.

This gap is what inspired him to write “Revolution: The Birth of the Greatest Nation in the History of the World,” which just released last month.

“This is our 250th,” he says. “This is our last exit before the toll. We the people need to understand how our government works, ... that all of our founders understood our liberties come from God.”

To hear more about Metaxas’ new book, watch the video above.

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It's common knowledge that Cornwallis' surrender at Yorktown, Virginia, effectively ended the Revolutionary War — but what happened to the British general after that humiliating defeat?

According to the Library of Virginia, the Siege of Yorktown — which turned out to be the final major military engagement of the Revolutionary War — took place in the autumn of 1781.

'He refused, however, to surrender in person and delegated the humiliating duty to his second in command.'

The British Army and its commanding general, Charles Cornwallis, were headquartered in the coastal Virginia town.

However, a French fleet under the command of Admiral François-Joseph-Paul de Grasse drove a British fleet from the Capes of Virginia, which made it impossible for Cornwallis to receive supplies and reinforcements, the Library of Virginia said.

American Gen. George Washington led his army from New York to Virginia, and — along with a large French and American army under Comte de Rochambeau — Washington laid siege to the British at Yorktown, the Library of Virginia said, adding that those forces joined the Marquis de Lafayette, who was commanding an American army that had been fighting the British in Virginia for six months.

More from the Library of Virginia:

The siege began on October 6, 1781, as the Americans and French formed a semicircle outside of the town and began an artillery bombardment. A successful storming of two British redoubts, or small temporary defensive enclosures, convinced Cornwallis that his position was untenable, and he surrendered his army to the combined American and French forces on October 19. He refused, however, to surrender in person and delegated the humiliating duty to his second in command. Washington consequently directed his second in command to receive the surrender.

Below is one of several famed clips from Mel Gibson's starring Hollywood turn in "The Patriot" depicting Cornwallis' disbelief that an army of "peasants" actually had defeated him:

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Nine days after his surrender, Cornwallis signed a parole document, the Library of Virginia said; under its terms, Cornwallis was allowed to leave Virginia and return to Great Britain on the condition that he would engage in no further military action against the United States.

However, Cornwallis' army remained in the U.S. as prisoners of war until they were exchanged or paroled, the Library of Virginia said, adding that Cornwallis — "an able military commander" — was "received warmly in England and served as governor-general of India from 1786 until his death in 1805."

The Library of Virginia noted that a formal peace treaty ended the Revolutionary War nearly two years after Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown, and King George III recognized the independence of the United States of America.

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