• Yorktown Battlefield

    Yorktown Battlefield

    Part of Colonial National Historical Park Virginia

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Cannon on British defenses

Cannon on British defenses

NPS Photo

The Siege
 
Renenactors on British defenses

Re-enactors during 200th Anniversary in 1981

NPS Photo

Unit Lists and Casualty Lists
 
Cannon firing during the 200th Anniversary

Cannon firing during the 200th Anniversary in 1981

NPS Photo

Time Lines
 
Civil War earthworks

Civil War earthworks

Matthew Brady

Civil War Yorktown
 
Marquis de Lafayette

Marquis de Lafayette

Artist: Charles Wilson Peale
Independence NHP

Lafayette and the Virginia Campaign

 
 
Battle Off Virginia Capes

Battle Off the Virginia Capes

19th century painting owned by the U.S. Navy and on display at the Hampton Roads Naval Museum in Norfolk, VA

Battle of the Capes

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Did You Know?

Yorktown Onion

The Yorktown Onion, commonly known as a wild leek, is a native of Southern Europe and West Asia. In America, in the 1950's, it was only found in York County, Virginia. Today it has spread into North Carolina and Western Virginia.