• Yorktown Battlefield

    Yorktown Battlefield

    Part of Colonial National Historical Park Virginia

The Siege

Photo of Redoubt 10 on Yorktown Battlefield

Redoubt 10

NPS Photo

History of the Siege
 
Photo of Moore House

The Moore House on Yorktown Battlefield

Cliff and Jean Dickey

The Moore House and Articles of Capitulation
 
Photo of Surrender Field on Yorktown Battlefield

Surrender Field

NPS photo

After Yorktown: From the Siege of 1781 to the Treaty of Paris in 1783
 
Lamb's Artillery Cannon Firing Demonstration

Lamb's Artillery Cannon Firing Demonstration

NPS PHOTO

Lamb's Artillery

 

Did You Know?

Victory Monument

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.