Yorktown

Many more people called Guiding Eyes for the Blind in Yorktown, N.Y.

The British still held New York when Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown in October 1781.

The American Revolution was protracted: Five years elapsed between the Declaration of Independence and Yorktown.

Lieutenant-Colonel Abercromby, who had led the only serious sortie from Yorktown, chewed his sword in impotent rage.

Cornwallis himself remained in Yorktown, pleading indisposition but perhaps unable to face the triumph of revolution.

Large groups of people gathered at Yorktown where the boat had been docked and waited for the reply.

General Cornwallis had taken possession of this house for his headquarters at Yorktown.

By September 1781, he had approximately eight thousand soldiers garrisoned on the peninsula at Yorktown.

The second death in Company B occurred on the evening of the first day out from Yorktown.

From there we went to Yorktown, expecting to take transportation home, as our term of service had nearly expired.