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The cemetery at Yorktown was transferred from the War Department to the National Park Service on August 10, 1933. Jamestown National Historic Site is co-owned by the National Park Service and Preservation Virginia (formerly known as the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities) and administered by the NPS, and was designated on ...
Gen. George Washington, by Cyd Player Archived 2019-04-03 at the Wayback Machine, Historic Yorktown (Riverwalk Landing) George Washington Memorial Parkway, authorized by Congress 1930, first section opened 1932; George Washington National Forest, western Virginia and eastern West Virginia. Established as Shenandoah National Forest (1918).
In modern times, York County and Yorktown in particular are part of an important historical area of attractions known as the Historic Triangle of Colonial Virginia, which includes Yorktown, Jamestown and Williamsburg. Yorktown is the northern terminus of the scenic Colonial Parkway operated by the U.S. National Park Service which links the ...
François Joseph Paul, Comte de Grasse, Marquis of Grasse-Tilly, KM (13 September 1722 – 11 January 1788) was a French Navy officer and nobleman. He is best known for his strategically decisive victory over the British while in command of the French fleet at the Battle of the Chesapeake in 1781 in the last year of the American Revolutionary War.
Yorktown is a town in York County, Virginia. It is the county seat of York County, [ 3 ] 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.
The George P. Coleman Memorial Bridge (known locally as simply the Coleman Bridge) is a double swing bridge that spans the York River between Yorktown and Gloucester Point, in the United States state of Virginia. It connects the Peninsula and Middle Peninsula regions of Tidewater, Virginia.
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Lafayette was alerted on July 26 that Cornwallis was embarking his troops, but lacked intelligence about their eventual destination, and began manoeuvring his troops to cover some possible landing points. [97] On August 6 he learned that Cornwallis had landed at Yorktown and was fortifying it and Gloucester Point just across the York River. [93]