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Yorktown, historic town (1990 pop. 270), seat of York co., SE Va., on the York River 10 mi (16 km) from its mouth on Chesapeake Bay; settled 1631, laid out 1691. It is included in the Colonial National Historical Park (see National Parks and Monuments National Parks and Monuments
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Acadia NP SE Maine 1919 48,419 (19,603) Mountain and coast scenery. ..... Click the link for more information. , table). The town, once an important tobacco port, reached its zenith c.1750. The Yorktown campaign Yorktown campaign, 1781, the closing military operations of the American Revolution. After his unsuccessful Carolina campaign General Cornwallis moved into Virginia to join British forces there. ..... Click the link for more information. (1781) brought to a close the American Revolution; the battlefield surrounds the town. In the Civil War, Yorktown was besieged (Apr.–May, 1862) by McClellan in the Peninsular campaign Peninsular campaign, in the American Civil War, the unsuccessful Union attempt (Apr.–July, 1862) to capture Richmond, Va., by way of the peninsula between the York and James rivers. The PlanEarly in 1862, Gen. George B. ..... Click the link for more information. , and the city was taken by Union troops on May 4. Places of interest in Yorktown include the customhouse (c.1706; restored 1929); Grace Church (1697); the Moore House (c.1725), in which the terms of Cornwallis's surrender were negotiated; and the Yorktown Monument (1881), commemorating the victory of 1781. BibliographySee B. Davis, The Campaign That Won America: The Story of Yorktown (1970). Yorktown site of American victory over British, ending Revolutionary War (1781). [Am. Hist.: Harbottle Battles, 271] See : Battle |
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In October of the same year General Washington compelled Lord Cornwallis to surrender his army, at Yorktown, in Virginia. In a week she had mastered the course of events up to the Revolution, and in ten days had arrived at Yorktown, where the class had apparently established summer quarters. |
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