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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM15UG_dudley-digges-house-circa-1760_Yorktown-VA.html
"?Lieutenant-colonel Tarleton directed them to charge into the town, (Charlottesville, Virginia)? and to apprehend, if possible, the governor and assembly. Seven members of the assembly were secured?and several officers and men, were killed, wound…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM15UD_outer-works_Yorktown-VA.html
This redoubt is one of several positions which the British built on the only "hard ground" approach to Yorktown. These positions formed a part of the outer line of their defenses.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM15UC_a-changed-scene_Yorktown-VA.html
Most of the high ground around Yorktown was under cultivation in 1781. In the 1770's the land in front of you was known as "General Nelson's Quarter". Here and elsewhere houses that stood have crumbled away and, in many instances, woods have recla…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM15UB_beaver-dam-creek_Yorktown-VA.html
This sluggish and marshy headwater of the Warwick River generally divided the French and American encampments. Although both forces were under Washington, separate unit organization was respected and preserved through the siege.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM15UA_french-hospital_Yorktown-VA.html
Across the field to your right, Hudson Allan's plantation building dominated the 1781 scene. Barns and sheds as well as mansions were useful to the French for field hospital purposes.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM15U9_nelson-house-circa-1730_Yorktown-VA.html
"General Nelson?was excelled by no man in the generosity of his nature, in the nobleness of his sentiments, in the purity of his Revolutionary principles, and in the exalted patriotism that answered every service and sacrifice that his country mig…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQM2_bellfield-plantation_Yorktown-VA.html
The Bellfield house site and graveyard are located some 300 yards to the east. This was the home of two early Virginia governors, Captain John West in 1632 and Edward Digges who bought the property from West in 1650. Here Digges produced superior …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMPX_goodwin-neck_Yorktown-VA.html
This area, locally known as Dandy, was part of the land granted to John Chew July 6, 1636, and was sold by his heirs to James Goodwin, a member of the House of Burgesses from Jamestown, August 27, 1668. The area was strategically important both to…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMPU_charles-church_Yorktown-VA.html
About one mile east, on north (left-hand) side of road (see stone marker and old foundations) stood the last colonial church of Charles Parish, built about 1708 and burned a century later, on the site of two earlier churches of the parish, built a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMPS_yorktown_Yorktown-VA.html
With his contempt for the distant English gentlemen who demanded the colonists search for gold instead of focus on building a strong settlement, Smith foreshadows the anger that Americans felt under British rule.
The lowborn colonists who shoul…