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  1. Yorktown is a census-designated place (CDP) in York County, Virginia. It is the county seat of York County, one of the eight original shires formed in colonial Virginia in 1682. Yorktown's population was 195 as of the 2010 census, while York County's population was 66,134 in the 2011 census estimate.

  2. Jun 9, 2024 · Yorktown, historic town, seat (1634) of York county, southeastern Virginia, U.S. It is situated on the south bank of the York River across from Gloucester Point, just east-southeast of Williamsburg. The area around Yorktown was settled in 1630, but the town itself developed after 1691 when a port.

  3. Jul 11, 2024 · Yorktown Battlefield - Winning America’s Independence. Discover what it took for the United States to be independent as you explore the site of the last major battle of the Revolutionary War. Here at Yorktown, in the fall of 1781, General George Washington, with allied American and French forces, besieged General Charles Lord Cornwallis’s ...

  4. Jun 26, 2019 · Learn about things to see and do in Yorktown, Va., including the American Revolution Museum at Yorktown, the Yorktown Battlefield and Historic Yorktown.

  5. Feb 26, 2015 · Though Yorktown no longer appears as it did when it was an important 18th century port city or when the British were trapped within its boundaries during the Siege of 1781, it is still a place of national importance - a place where independence for the United States of America was won.

  6. The Battle of Yorktown proved to be the decisive engagement of the American Revolution. The British surrender forecast the end of British rule in the colonies and the birth of a new nation—the United States of America. How it ended. American victory.

  7. Jun 12, 2021 · Yorktown Battlefield in Virginia, United States, is the location of the final battle of the American Revolution. It was at Yorktown that on 19 October 1781, the British surrendered to the combined forces of the French and American armies under the command of General Washington.

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