August 21
Took the dingy to tour Yorktown. The free trolley took us to the Yorktown Victory Center which was a museum of the American Revolution. It chronicles America's evolution from colonial status to nationhood through timeline, film, thematic exhibits and living history interpretation in a Continental Army encampment and the 1780s farm. We then visited the battlefield where Lord Charles Cornwallis was defeated in 1781 at the hands of American General George Washington and his French Ally, General Comte de Rochambeau. The Battle of Yorktown led to independence and the creation of a new nation two years later when the Treaty of Paris was signed.
General Washington and French Admiral De Grasse |
Yorktown Home |
General Lafayette identified this dented cannon while visiting the United States in 1824. The distinctive dent on the British tube was inflicted by an allied cannon ball during the siege.
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