Yorktown
['jɔ:taun]
Definition
(noun.) in 1781 the British under Cornwallis surrendered after a siege of three weeks by American and French troops; the surrender ended the American Revolution.
(noun.) a historic village in southeastern Virginia to the north of Newport News; site of the last battle of the American Revolution.
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Examples
- General Cornwallis was caught in the Yorktown peninsula in Virginia in 1781, and capitulated with his army. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He served until the fall of Yorktown, or through the entire Revolutionary war. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
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