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/ˈjɔɹkˌtaʊn/
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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
- a historic village in southeastern Virginia to the north of Newport News; site of the last battle of the American Revolution
How To Use Yorktown In A Sentence
- They also don't have the easy target that Cornwallis gave them at Yorktown, though there is a small British force operating in the area.
- His base sat astride the York River, including Yorktown on the south bank and Gloucester Point on the north. Between War and Peace
- On the York River, near its embouchure, is the little port of Yorktown, famous for the surrender of Lord Cornwallis to the American forces in 1781. Plan of the Seat of War in Eastern Virginia
- His mother, Arleen Weise, of Yorktown, Texas, wouldn't disclose the payout under the terms of the settlement, but said she wasn't bitter the families of other victims might receive larger sums because they were settling later. Death Payouts in BP Spill Start at $8 Million
- Police: Man admits killing, dumping his wife in Dutchess reservoir Yorktown crash kills two friends, one was to graduate next month Undefined
- From the cockpit of his F6F-5 Hellcat fighter, Yorktown air group commander Herb Houck was directing the planes of his group.
- Falls Church is a really gay high school," Joey quipped, meaning that he found far more "out" (as in openly gay) students there than at Yorktown, where there were only one or two. Falls Church News-Press Online
- During the early history of Virginia, Yorktown was a place of much commercial importance, and there are again anticipations of a magnificent future for this dilapidated and desolated village. Yorktown, Virginia
- The comte de Rochambeau had already begun planning for a siege at Yorktown when he requested assistance from the commander of the French fleet in the Caribbean.
- At the end of the Battle of Midway, all four Japanese carriers involved in the attack on Pearl Harbor had been sunk, while the United States lost the carrier Yorktown.