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Navies During the Yorktown Campaign

Larrabee, Harold. Decision at the Chesapeake. New York: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., 1964.

Preston, Anthony. Navies of the American Revolution. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall Inc., 1975.

Sands, John O. Yorktown's Captive Fleet. Charlottesville, VA: The University Press of Virginia, 1983.

Warner, Oliver. Great Sea Battles. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1963.
Victory Monument  

Did You Know?
The Yorktown Monument to "The Alliance and Victory" was the first monument authorized by the Federal Government. It was authorized on October 29, 1781, just ten days after the victory at Yorktown. However, construction on the monument did not begin until 1881. It was completed in 1884.

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