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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM71A_the-second-siege-line_Yorktown-VA.html
The low earthworks on either side are part of the French and American advance line. Construction was started when allied artillery fire had sufficiently weakened the British defenses. The line was completed after the capture of Redoubts No. 9 and 10.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM719_grand-french-battery_Yorktown-VA.html
These three batteries and redoubt were a continuation of the Grand French Battery complex across the road. Occupying a section 1,000 feet from east to west, this battery complex contained approximately thirty pieces of artillery which bombarded th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM711_yorktown-victory-monument_Yorktown-VA.html
This monument was authorized by Continental Congress, October 29, 1781, just after the news of surrender reached Philadelphia. Actual construction began 100 years later and was completed in 1884. The original figure of Liberty atop the Victory sha…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM70Z_the-hornwork_Yorktown-VA.html
To your right the British extended their works outward along the York-Hampton Road a principal entrance into Yorktown which they blocked with this "Hornwork." It was garrisoned by Colonel Abercrombie's Light Infantry.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM70V_surrender-road_Yorktown-VA.html
The course of the road here is about as it was in colonial times. On October 19, 1781, in the afternoon, the soldiers of Cornwallis' Army marched this way and filed off into the field on your left. This was the place designated for the formal capi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM70O_york-under-siege-1781_Yorktown-VA.html
Early in October French-American forces closed their grip on the besieged British army in Yorktown and bombarded the town with their combined artillery. Incessant shellfire drove townspeople to seek shelter under this bluff and forced the British …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM70N_brotherhood-preserved_Yorktown-VA.html
A few weeks before his resignation as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army, December 4, 1783, Washington said farewell to his officers: "With a heart full of love and gratitude, I now take my leave of you." ? But the bond of brotherhood that…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6ZR_the-deposit_Yorktown-VA.html
Eighteenth century siege warfare meant weeks of labor for the soldiers, not only on the trenches, but in the rear areas where special siege materials were made and stored.
In constructing the siege lines, engineers and sappers used quantities o…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6ZP_trophies-of-war_Yorktown-VA.html
An army ? consisting of more than seven thousand choice troops, were obliged to surrender their arms to an enemy as much despised as hated; twelve thousand muskets, more than two hundred pieces of iron and brass cannon, and a prodigious quantity o…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6ZO_washingtons-headquarters_Yorktown-VA.html
General George Washington established his headquarters in this area at the junction of the American encampments to the east and the French encampments to the north.
Here he set up two tents: a large one for meeting with his staff and for dining…