While the French fleet commanded by Admiral Comte de Grasse blocked the Chesapeake and held the British fleet at bay, American and French troops trapped British forces at Yorktown in the fall of 1781.

Americans went to war to win their independence from Great Britain. Just weeks after the outbreak of fighting at Lexington ...

The Museum of the American Revolution will ... carried the sword at the Siege of Yorktown as a crutch on his long walk home at the end of the Revolutionary War, according to the museum’s press ...

The Americans’ improbable victory at Yorktown has been rightfully remembered for ending the American Revolution and securing ... to building America. With war, conflicts, and hostilities ...

As a young man, Lafayette was able to play a role in our war, by providing his own ship ... the states that had been the ...

Next Monday is Veterans Day, and a piece of American history in Lima got a makeover and was rededicated today. The historic ...

Born a slave in New Kent County, Armistead ended up working as a spy during the Revolutionary War ... American troops and providing information that helped pave the way for the siege of Yorktown ...

A recreation of one of the three sailing vessels that brought America’s first permanent English colonists to Virginia in 1607 ...

The Lima Daughters of the American Revolution rededicated the marker for a veteran of the war that created the country ...

YORKTOWN — The annual remembrance of the Siege of Yorktown in 1781, the Revolutionary battle that led to the ... demonstrations will be held at the American Revolution Museum at Yorktown on ...

Prior to 1954, the day was called Armistice Day, commemorating the signing of the Treaty of Versailles that marked the end of ...