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	Yorktown, Virginia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Today, Yorktown is part of an important national resource known as the Historic Triangle of Yorktown, Jamestown and Williamsburg, and is the northern terminus of the Colonial Parkway.
		Yorktown was the base of British General Charles Cornwallis during the 1781 Battle of Yorktown, the last major battle of the American Revolutionary War.
		Yorktown was also used as the base for the Federal Army of the Potomac under General George McClellan in the 1862 Peninsular Campaign.
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	Yorktown - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The second Yorktown was a gunboat, launched in 1888, commissioned in 1889 and decommissioned in 1921.
		The third Yorktown (CV-5) was an aircraft carrier commissioned in 1937, and a major combatant in World War II until she was sunk at the Battle of Midway in 1942.
		The fourth Yorktown (CV-10) was also an aircraft carrier, commissioned in 1943, a participant in World War II and the Vietnam War, decommissioned in 1970 and now a museum at Patriot's Point in Charleston Harbor, Mt.
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	Naval Weapons Station (NAVWPNSTA), Yorktown, Virginia
		Yorktown Naval Weapons Station in Virginia accommodated 120 W-80-0 nuclear munitions for Tomahawk SLCM's and 160 nuclear aerial bombs for deck-based naval aviation.
		Although the exact size and population of Yorke village is not known, history clearly indicates that during a major portion of the 1600's it served as the social, municipal, and religious center for this portion of the York River area.
		Yorktown's moment in history began September 28, 1781, when a group of Colonial and French soldiers set out from Williamsburg to lay siege to the British Army that had fortified the seaport hamlet.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/facility/yorktown.htm (1789 words)

	Yorktown Campaign (1781)
		It was a tribute to their individual characters and professionalism that the complexities of such operations succeeded, given that neither of the army commanders spoke the language of the other.
		Duportail was sent to Virginia with a special dispatch from Wasnington to inform Lafayette and De Grasse of the new strategic plan.
		The remarkably swift execution by the joint and combined military Franco-American forces, leading to the 1781 Yorktown victory has been difficult for some to accept as the result of evolving circumstances which were exploited by the exemplary, rapid decisions of the various allied commanders.
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	Yorktown Battlefield, A Site on a Revolutionary War Road Trip on US Route 60 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Yorktown Victory Monument — Authorized by the Continental Congress after the Allied victory in 1781, construction began a hundred years later during the centennial celebration of the surrender in 1881.
		One of the members of Virginia assembly captured by the British during their Charlottesville raid on June 5, 1781 was the former lieutenant governor, Dudley Digges.
		In June 1781, he was elected the third governor of Virginia, succeeding Thomas Jefferson, and, with the rank of brigadier general, commanded the Virginia militia at the siege of Yorktown.
	www.revolutionaryday.com /usroute60/yorktown (2304 words)

	Encyclopedia: Yorktown, Virginia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The American Civil War (1861â€“1865) was fought in North America within the United States of America, between twenty-four mostly northern states of the Union and the Confederate States of America, a coalition of eleven southern states that declared their independence and claimed the right of secession from the...
		Virginia Garden, a work in progress, is located in the southeast corner of Virginia just within zone 8 of the USDA Plant Hardiness Chart.
		In Yorktown, Virginia the approximate minimal average temperature ranges from 10 to 20 degrees Fahrenheit.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Yorktown,-Virginia (745 words)

	Yorktown, Virginia - Travel Photos by Galen R Frysinger, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
		Yorktown, Siege of, name applied to two different military actions, one at the end of the American Revolution, the other during the American Civil War.
		In August the British fortified Yorktown and the town of Gloucester, on the opposite side of the York River.
		Washington achieved the victory at Yorktown by coordinating his widely scattered land and sea forces in what is considered one of the most skillful military operations in history.
	www.galenfrysinger.com /yorktown_virginia.htm (538 words)

	Lafayette's Virginia Campaign (1781)
		Virginia had been out of the war as a theater of significant armed conflict since a few nuissance raids in the Tidewater country early in 1776.
		Virginia's governor, Thomas Jefferson, was unable to raise forces to resist Arnold's ventures and appealed to Washington.
		Yorktown Campaign Decision page addresses the implausible legend that the allied operations in the summer of 1781 in Virginia were planned by Rochambeau and Washington in late May.
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	Yorktown, Virginia (Cities)
		Yorktown is located in York County, of which it is the county seat, 16 miles north of Newport News between Gloucester Point and Tabb along Highway 17 on the banks of the York River in the Eastern Region of the state.
		Yorktown, founded in 1691, was a busy 18th-century tobacco port; the town is best remembered as the site of the Battle of Yorktown, which effectively ended the Revolutionary War.
		Yorktown is part of the Norfolk-Virginia Beach-Newport News metro area.
	www.ohwy.com /va/y/yorktown.htm (199 words)

	Yorktown on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Yorktown campaign (1781) brought to a close the American Revolution; the battlefield surrounds the town.
		In the Civil War, Yorktown was besieged (Apr.-May, 1862) by McClellan in the Peninsular campaign, and the city was taken by Union troops on May 4.
		Places of interest in Yorktown include the customhouse (c.1706; restored 1929); Grace Church (1697); the Moore House (c.1725), in which the terms of Cornwallis's surrender were negotiated; and the Yorktown Monument (1881), commemorating the victory of 1781.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/Y/Yorktown.asp (734 words)

	Virginia
		Virginia has a large number of manufacturing industries, including transportation equipment, food processing, electronic and other electrical equipment, chemicals, textiles and apparel, lumber and wood products, and furniture.
		Virginia is one of the top ten coal producers in the U.S. Coal accounts for roughly 70% of Virginia's mineral value; crushed stone, sand and gravel, lime, and kyanite are also mined.
		Virginia, University of - Virginia, University of, mainly at Charlottesville; state supported; coeducational; chartered 1819,...
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	Virginia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Virginia, in full Commonwealth of Virginia, state in the eastern United States and one of the original 13 colonies.
		Virginia's rich political heritage helped shape the democratic principles on which the United States was founded.
		Virginia played an important role in the American Revolution (1775-1783), and it entered the Union as the tenth of the original 13 states on June 25, 1788.
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	Colonial National Historical Park Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in North America in 1607, is administer jointly with the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities (APVA) which owns 22½ acres of Jamestown Island, and Yorktown Battlefield, the final major battle of the American Revolutionary War in 1781.
		Colonial NHP also includes Green Spring, the 17th century plantation home of Virginia's colonial governor, Sir William Berkeley and the Cape Henry Memorial, which marks the approximate site of the first landing of the Jamestown colonists in April of 1607.
		The Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities (APVA) administers 22½ acres of Jamestown which includes statues of Pocahontas and John Smith; the memorial church with its original tower of 1639; an active archeological dig (which has located the original triangular fort of Jamestown) and an archeological lab associated with this dig.
	www.nps.gov /colo/graphics (1640 words)

	Yorktown Real Estate :: Yorktown Virginia MLS
		Yorktown real estate agent Don Duty is a designated Realtor member of his local Board of Realtors.
		Don Duty understands the real estate market conditions in and around the Yorktown area, and his knowledge of the area is only exceeded by his professionalism and attention to the details.
		Yorktown Real Estate is still one of the best investments you can make, with price increases usually outperforming all other forms of investing.
	www.realestatenetworkgroup.com /Virginia/Yorktown_Real_Estate (524 words)

	Yorktown Crew (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Yorktown is part of the National Capital Area Scholastic Rowing Association, and rows out of Thompson's Boathouse along the Potomac River.
		Although Crew is a club sport at Yorktown because it is not financially supported by Arlington County, it operates as a Varsity sport in all other ways.
		Rowers are eligible for Varsity letters and fall under the rules and regulations of the Virginia High School League.
	www.yorktowncrew.org (156 words)

	Yorktown Victory Monument, Yorktown, Virginia.
		The concluding battle of the Revolutionary War ended October 19, 1781 in Yorktown, Virginia.
		To commemorate the important Allied Victory over the British, the Continental Congress on October 29, 1781, authorized the Yorktown Victory Monument.
		The Yorktown Victory Monument is located on the southeastern end of Main Street in Yorktown, Virginia.
	www.virginiagarden.com /Yorktown.html (114 words)

	Travel America: Virginia's Historic Triangle AMERICA'S ROOTS - Williamsburg, Jamestown, and Yorktown (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Williamsburg, Jamestown, and Yorktown form the points of Virginia's Historic Triangle, where landmark events in American history unfolded on the narrow tidewater peninsula bounded by the James and York rivers.
		From 1699 to 1780, Williamsburg was the capital of Virginia, the largest, wealthiest, and most populous of Great Britain's colonies in North America.
		Yorktown Victory Center, a showcase of the American Revolution, is the sister museum of Jamestown Settlement, both administered by the state-funded Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation.
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	Operations: Virginia Theater (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Yorktown (1781) Trois mois d'opérations combinées sur terre et sur mar dans une guerre de coalition.
		Yorktown: a compendious account of the campaign of the allied French and American forces, resulting in the surrender of Cornwallis and the close of the American Revolution; the succeeding events, to the treat of peace; and the celebration of the centennial anniversary of the surrender at Yorktown.
		Wright, John W. "Notes on the Siege of Yorktown in 1781 with Special Reference to the Conduct of a Siege in the Eighteenth Century." William and Mary Quarterly, 2d Ser., 12 (October 1932), pp.
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	Glimpses of Historical Areas East of the Mississippi River
		Here in the summer of 1781 they fortified Yorktown as a naval station for the British fleet in southern waters and as a military base for further operations in the interior.
		Under his command were 5,500 veterans of the Continental line, 3,000 Virginia militia, and Rochambeau's 7,600 seasoned French troops—a total of about 16,000 allies against half that number of British beleaguered in Yorktown.
		The siege of Yorktown was primarily an artillery duel conducted according to orthodox eighteenth century tactics under the direction of Baron von Steuben, a veteran of the wars of Frederick the Great, who had come from Prussia to assist the Americans in their struggle for independence.
	www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/glimpses3/glimpses2g.htm (517 words)

	Jamestown Settlement and Yorktown Victory Center
		Through film, artifact-filled galleries and outdoor living history, these museums engage visitors in nearly two centuries of our nation's history - from the founding of America's first permanent English settlement in 1607 to the decisive Revolutionary War victory in 1781 and implementation of the Constitution and Bill of Rights.
		At the Yorktown Victory Center, you'll discover the lives of men and women who witnessed the American Revolution and the formation of the new nation.
		Administered by the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation, an agency of the Commonwealth of Virginia that is accredited by the American Association of Museums.
	www.historyisfun.org (201 words)

	Colonial Connections - Yorktown Battlefield - Yorktown, Virginia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Yorktown was the site of the last major battle of the American Revolutionary War.
		By early September they were parading before the Continental Congress in Philadelphia, and they arrived in Williamsburg, 13 miles west of Yorktown, in mid September.
		Though the British still had 26,000 troops in North America after Yorktown, their resolve to win the war was nothing like it had been before Yorktown.
	www.colonialconnections.com /yorktownbattlefield.htm (507 words)

	Yorktown Virginia Bed and Breakfast, York River Inn, near Colonial Williamsburg, VA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The York River Inn BandB, on a high bluff overlooking the York River in a colonial-style building, is the only waterfront bed and breakfast in the Yorktown and Colonial Williamsburg area.
		The York River Inn Bed and Breakfast is the ideal location for a relaxing visit in historic Yorktown, Virginia.
		The Inn is only a short distance from the colonial area and other attractions of Yorktown and is only 15 minutes from Colonial Williamsburg by the way of the scenic Colonial Parkway.
	www.yorkriverinn.com (152 words)

	Today in History: October 19
		Cornwallis had marched his army into the Virginia port town earlier that summer expecting to meet British ships sent from New York.
		For more Civil War photographs of Yorktown, including images of troops, camps, and artillery, search on Yorktown in Civil War Photographs, 1861-1865.
		Almost two years later, on September 3, 1783, the signing of the Treaty of Paris brought the war to an end.
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	Yorktown Vacation Resort Guide - Tour Virginia Center - Tour Yorktown Virginia Vacation Adventure by MainTour
		Converging on Yorktown - Indoor gallery tells the story of the multinational forces that converged on Yorktown in 1781 for the decisive battle of the war.
		Yorktown's Sunken Fleet - Exhibits relate the story of British ships sunk or scuttled in the York River during the siege of Yorktown.
		The Courtyard Newport News Yorktown is conveniently located one block from Cybernetics Corporation, two miles from Canon of Virginia, Oyster Point Business Park and Patrick Henry Mall, three miles from U.P.S., four miles from NASA, five miles from Coliseum Mall, Hampton Coliseum, Langley Air Force Base and 10 miles from downtown.
	www.maintour.com /virginia/nfkyork.htm (931 words)

	LIBERTY! . Chronicle of the Revolution . Yorktown 1781 \| PBS
		Thus ended a three-week old siege which had begun with the miraculous convergence of French and American forces on the Chesapeake Bay.
		Cornwallis limped into Virginia in late summer trailed by a force led by the The Marquis de Lafayette, long a supporter of American efforts both as a soldier in this country, and as an advocate for the cause in France.
		As Cornwallis' 8,000 man force became prisoners-of-war, the British band played the The World Turned Upside Down, a tune that underscored the strange turn of events which had brought defeat at the hands of the provincial forces of America, to the most powerful country in Europe.
	www.pbs.org /ktca/liberty/chronicle_yorktown1781.html (441 words)

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