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 ...

what makes Yorktown Battlefield so special? For starters, it's the site of the 1781 siege and surrender of British troops to General George Washington in the Revolutionary War. And second ...

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

The Virginia Museum of History & Culture will kick off the nation’s 250th anniversary commemoration with the "Give Me Liberty ...

YORKTOWN— Bring your dancing shoes and a revolutionary spirit to keep in step with ballroom dances of the 18th century during ...

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 ...

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

From the beginning, the American ... died in battle or from wounds. They were equally generous in sacrificing their property ...

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 ...