Proper noun
Yorktown
A town, the county seat of York County, in southeastern Virginia, United States. It was the site of the final battle of the Revolutionary War.
The good news was that Enterprise and the newly arrived Yorktown had attacked the Marshall and Gilbert islands. Those attacks had a great effect on morale. Jack Adams
1st Maryland Regiment holding the line at the Battle of Guilford The road to Yorktown and America's independence from Great Britain led through North Carolina. Source: Internet
A combined American–French force captured a second British army at Yorktown in 1781, effectively ending the war in the United States. Source: Internet
African Americans 1780 drawing of American soldiers from the Yorktown campaign shows a black infantryman from the 1st Rhode Island Regiment African Americans —slave and free—served on both sides during the war. Source: Internet
Foreign policy main Surrender of Cornwallis to French (left) and American (right) troops, at the Siege of Yorktown in 1781, by John Trumbull Louis XVI receives the ambassadors of Tippu Sultan in 1788, Voyer after Emile Wattier, 19th century. Source: Internet
Downfall of the North Ministry News of the surrender at Yorktown arrived in Britain in November 1781. Source: Internet