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siege of Yorktown
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Noun1.siege of Yorktown - in 1781 the British under Cornwallis surrendered after a siege of three weeks by American and French troops; the surrender ended the American Revolution
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American Revolution, American Revolutionary War, American War of Independence, War of American Independence - the revolution of the American Colonies against Great Britain; 1775-1783
Old Dominion, Old Dominion State, VA, Virginia - a state in the eastern United States; one of the original 13 colonies; one of the Confederate States in the American Civil War
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When Ketchum finally begins to discuss the Yorktown Campaign in chapter 6, he engagingly recounts how events came together to seal Cornwallis's fate; his writing sweeps the reader through the buildup to the siege.
Victory at Yorktown: The Campaign That Won the Revolution by Weaver, Michael E. / Air & Space Power Journal
They did escort and patrol duty around Philadelphia (1777-1778), fought in the Pennsylvania campaign, served as rearguard during the British retreat to New York (1778), fought at Perth Amboy, New Jersey--where Simcoe was captured but freed in a prisoner exchange three months later (1779-1780), at Charlestown, South Carolina (1780), in the raid on Richmond, Virginia, with Benedict Arnold, in other raids in Virginia (1780-1781) and in the Yorktown campaign (1781).
Governor Simcoe by Grant, Doug / The Loyalist Gazette
1) The Yorktown campaign in 1871 during the American Revolution provides the modern Redleg an excellent example of these principles and the effects that successful implementation can provide.
The siege of Yorktown: joint and multinational operations in the ... by Pruett, W. Cochran / FA Journal
 
 
 
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