With the decisive Battle of Yorktown in Virginia in 1781, America freed itself from the shackles of tyranny. Now, Virginia-the first, permanent English-speaking colony in the New World-is celebrating the 225th anniversary of the historic battle.
The National Park Service’s Yorktown Battlefield and Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation’s Yorktown Victory Center, together with the town of Yorktown, are hosting stirring events and exhibits to bring clarity to America’s most important military victory-George Washington’s triumph of allied forces over the British at Yorktown in October 1781.
This year in Yorktown-along the sandy shores of the tidal York River near the Chesapeake Bay-will be special, beginning with timeless attractions, such as:
• The Victory Center, where visitors can “meet” Revolutionary soldiers, try on their uniforms and view artifacts from the sunken British ship “Betsy,” one of many British ships resting on the bottom of the York River; and
• The Yorktown Battlefield, where you can walk the fields and fortifications where General Washington forced the surrender of more than...
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