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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/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/HM75S_steubens-division_Yorktown-VA.html
The 2,000 men of Major General Baron Von Steuben's American Division bivouacked in the woods and fields to the right of the road. They were chiefly Pennsylvania, Virginia and Maryland units, and some others, such as sixty "Delaware Recruits" of Ca…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM75Q_baron-von-steuben_Yorktown-VA.html
This general was experienced in siege warfare such as characterized the Yorktown battle and so he was invaluable to Washington. Von Steuben maintained headquarters here with his division of American troops.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM75P_headquarters-site-of-the-quartermaster-general_Yorktown-VA.html
Supplying the American Army was always critical. At Yorktown Colonel Timothy Pickering of Massachusetts, seconded by a man of his own choice, Lieutenant Colonel Henry Dearborn of New Hampshire, held the responsibility for Washington's Quartermaste…