PBS
Pbs: Yorktown Is Won!
This excellent PBS site describes the victory at Yorktown. Includes image.
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National Park Service: The Battle of Cowpens
Find an excellent description of this important "turning point" battle that led to the victory at Yorktown. Important terms and names of people and places are hyperlinked to the glossary for additional explanation.
Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation
Jamestown Settlement and Yorktown Victory Center
Learn about life in the colonial settlement of Jamestown and the Revolutionary War battle at Yorktown.
Other
Niahd: The Decisive Yorktown Battle
A one-page summation of the last major battle of the Revolutionary War: Yorktown. The significance of this battle is highlighted.
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Xenophon Group: Yorktown Campaign (August October 1781)
A very detailed account of activities during the months leading up to and throughout the siege of Yorktown. Excellent maps and images also supplied.
Independence Hall Association
U.s. History: The American Revolution
A brief overview of the battles and their individual and collective importance in the Revolutionary War. Find out about the battle that turned the tide and brought about needed French assistance.
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Etc: Principal Battles of the War of Independence, 1775 1781
A sketch map of eastern North America showing the principal battle sites of the American War of Independence (1775-1781). The map gives the site names and dates of the conflicts, including the British surrender to Washington at Yorktown,...
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The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation: Charles Cornwallis (1738 1805)
Charles Cornwallis began his career sympathizing with the colonist's views before the Revolutionary War, but loyalty to the king won out when called upon to suppress the rebellion in America. Learn about major events in his life, battles...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Siege of Yorktown, 1781
A battle plan of the Siege of Yorktown of 1781 at the close of the American Revolutionary War. The plan shows the British fortifications around Yorktown, the ships Guadeloupe and Charon in the York River, the British redoubts occupied by...
Digital History
Digital History: The Revolutionary War
An overview of the military encounters in the Revolutionary War. Read about the lows and highs of the Continental Army, and the eventual defeat of the British.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: General Gouverneur K. Warren
General Warren, born in Cold Spring, N. Y., January 8th, 1830, died in Newport, R. I., August 8th, 1882, was graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1850, and assigned to the Topographical Engineers as brevet second...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: General Fitzjohn Porter
General Porter, born at Portsmouth, N. H., June 13th, 1822, was graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1845, and assigned to the Fourth Artillery, in which he became second lieutenant, June 18th, 1846. He served in the...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: General Hiram G. Berry
General Berry, born in Thomaston (now Rockland), Me., August 27th, 1824, died at Chancellorsville, Va., May 2nd, 1863. He originated and commanded for several years the Rockland Guard, a volunteer company, which attained a very high...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: General Edwin v. Sumner
General Sumner, born in Boston Mass., January 30th, 1797, died in Syracuse, N. Y., March 21st, 1863, was educated at Milton (Mass.) Academy, and entered the army in 1819 as second lieutenant of infantry. In 1838 he was placed in command...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: General Francis C. Barlow
General Barlow, born in Brooklyn, N. Y., October 18th, 1834, was graduated at Harvard in 1855. In 1861 he enlisted as a private in the Twelfth Regiment, New York State National Guard, and went to the front of the first call for troops to...