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Yorktown Battlefield
The Yorktown Campaign

Clinton, Sir Henry. Narrative of theCampaign in 1781 in North America. Philadelphia: John Campbell, 1865.

Cullen, Joseph. October 19, 1781, Victory at Yorktown. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1976.

Davis, Burke. The Campaign that Won America. New York: The Dial Press, 1970.

Greene, Jerome. The Guns of Independence: The Siege of Yorktown, 1781.
New York: Savas Beatie, 2005.

Hatch, Charles. Yorktown and the Siege of 1781. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1954.

Hatch, Charles. Yorktown, Climax of the American Revolution. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1941.

Johnston, Henry. The Yorktown Campaign and the Surrender of Cornwallis. Philadelphia: Eastern Acorn Press, 1981.


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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