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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM74C_yorktown_Yorktown-VA.html
The "old town" which you enter here is ringed by stout Civil War entrenchments built on top of the British works of 1781. Englishmen, Scotsmen, Welchmen, Hessians, and Loyalist Americans were quartered here while besieged by American-French forces…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM74B_french-trench_Yorktown-VA.html
This earthwork was manned by the "Regiment Touraine" and formed the western portion of the French and American siege line surrounding Yorktown. From this line the French fired upon ships in the York River and the British fort behind you.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM73N_yorktown_Yorktown-VA.html
"York-Town, Capital of the County of that Name, is situated on a rising Ground, gently descending every Way into a Valley, and tho' but stragglingly built, yet makes no inconsiderable Figure."Edward Kimber, Observations in Several Voyages and Trav…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM73A_the-washington-rochambeau-route-to-victory_Yorktown-VA.html
On August 14, 1781, Generals Washington and Rochambeau received news that a large French fleet under the command of Admiral de Grasse was headed for the Chesapeake Bay carrying 3,000 French soldiers. There the British general, Lord Cornwallis, was…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM733_yorktowns-waterfront_Yorktown-VA.html
18th century commerce moved by water whenever possible. Yorktown's waterfront reflected this. Tobacco warehouses, ship's chandleries, grogshops and wharves lined the waterfront ? Among them passed the diverse array of merchants and sailors, plante…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM731_york-under-the-hill_Yorktown-VA.html
Initially Yorktown was laid out above the bluffs, but the thin strip of ground here between water and cliff was essential to the town's commercial life. Port facilities crowded the area - wharves, warehouses and stores as pictured here. These same…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM72X_the-neck_Yorktown-VA.html
This British redoubt is the sole original earthwork remaining from the siege of Yorktown - but it never came under fire. Cornwallis pulled back to Yorktown from this key defensive position on the night of September 30, 1781, and opened Yorktown's …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM72C_major-general-benjamin-lincoln-and-his-division_Yorktown-VA.html
"I am fully convinced that the Siege will not last more than twelve days more and that Cornwallis & his troops must in that time be ours."Major General Benjamin Lincoln to his wife, October 12, 1781
On May 12, 1780, Major General Benjamin Linco…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM721_fusiliers-redoubt_Yorktown-VA.html
Here, just west of Yorktown, the British built an earthwork to control the road to Williamsburg. This fortification was manned by the Royal Welch Fusiliers throughout the siege. The path leads to the reconstructed redoubt.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM720_french-trench_Yorktown-VA.html
The extreme left of the American and French lines, commanded by the Marquis de Saint-Simon, was held by a French artillery battery. On October 9, it became the first battery of siege guns to fire on the British, aiming at the nearby Royal Welch Fu…