Yorktown

We had found a Good Sam RV site near Williamsburg but wanted to visit Yorktown as it was where in 1781, five years after the Declaration of Independence that Washington’s army combined and helped by the French, with their munitions and expertise managed to force the surrender of the British under General Cornwallis.

There is a Colonial National Historic Park with a Museum, a 15 minute film and then a road route past the Redoubts, siege lines and Battery sites.

It was the seventh year of the American War of Independence. The British still had hopes of subjugating the South with their army and navy.

This battle resulted in George III and the British Government to give up trying to subdue the Colonies and the Treaty of Paris in 1783 officially ended the hostilities.