Yorktown

Examples

• All

• Lexington, Bunker Hill, and Saratoga were behind; Monmouth, Stony Point, and Yorktown ahead.

  Academic text (1992)

• Admiral Clark commanded the USS Suwanee and USS Yorktown during World War II and commanded the Seventh Fleet during the Korean War.

  Academic text (2002)

• So, bright and early the next morning, I drove into Yorktown proper to visit the dressmaker.

  Fiction book (2000)

• "I won't have time to do anything else before I go down to Yorktown; I'm going down there tomorrow."

  Fiction book (2000)

• The Battle of Yorktown.

  Hamilton (2025)

• By fall of 1781, Washington was in Yorktown, Virginia, with America's French allies.

  Blog text (16)

• Alexander Hamilton, cited for bravery at Yorktown, nominated Major William Jackson as Secretary of the Convention, and he was elected.

  Academic text (1993)

• After Cornwallis's defeat at Yorktown a year later, there was very little incentive left for Creeks to resist Americans at all.

  Academic text (2014)

• Within minutes of Williamsburg are Jamestown, Yorktown, Busch Gardens, Water Country USA, Williamsburg Winery, Norfolk, and Newport News.

  Academic text (1995)

• The Battle of Yorktown marked the end of the American Revolutionary War in 1781.

Compounds

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siege of Yorktown

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A 1781 battle that ended the American Revolution when British forces gave up after three weeks

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