Coast Guard Training vessels tied up at Yorktown docks for lunch, Colonial home, and Nelson's home with cannonballs lodged in it (see between upper two windows and to lower right of right first floor window).The Star is back on the York River at the new dock at Yorktown (Riverwalk Landing, 757-890-3370). Yorktown has a new waterfront since Hurricane Isabel hit in 2003 - new dock, breakwater and beaches, walkway, Waterman Museum, and Colonial-style buildings for shops and restarants with parking. Is is an easy walk around the historic town, the Yorktown Battlefield Visitor Center or the Victory Center. In the summer, a free trolley has stops around the sights, plus a shuttle runs from the Victory Center to the Colonial Capitol of Williamsburg and on to the first English settlement of Jamestown (able to see all three historic sights within 23 miles without a car).
Yorktown was the last official battle of the American Revolution (Oct 1781). General Washington caught Lord Cornwallis here in a seige. The English troops were unable to escape across the river to Glouscester Point, and the French Navy kept the British Royal Navy from entering the Chesapeake Bay to bring more troops and supplies. It took two years (1783) for the treaty to be signed by Britian recognizing the United States of America. The risk our forefathers took (rich and poor) to initiate a fight against Britain, against all odds, for six years, labeled as traitors/terrorists /rebels, was immense. Even afterwards, many struggled (due to lost property, lost wages due to soldiering for years, loss of wage earner, etc.) despite the struggle the new country incurred establishing itself with little to no money.
Every year the U.S. Army Transporation Center at Fort Eustus has a Transportation Week the last week of July, so we went to the barbeque Thursday night where we also saw Mike Keith and Linda Wahlman.
Yorktown was the last official battle of the American Revolution (Oct 1781). General Washington caught Lord Cornwallis here in a seige. The English troops were unable to escape across the river to Glouscester Point, and the French Navy kept the British Royal Navy from entering the Chesapeake Bay to bring more troops and supplies. It took two years (1783) for the treaty to be signed by Britian recognizing the United States of America. The risk our forefathers took (rich and poor) to initiate a fight against Britain, against all odds, for six years, labeled as traitors/terrorists /rebels, was immense. Even afterwards, many struggled (due to lost property, lost wages due to soldiering for years, loss of wage earner, etc.) despite the struggle the new country incurred establishing itself with little to no money.
Every year the U.S. Army Transporation Center at Fort Eustus has a Transportation Week the last week of July, so we went to the barbeque Thursday night where we also saw Mike Keith and Linda Wahlman.
Yorktown battlefield from British defensive works to redoubts 9 and 10 that the French and Americans captured, ultimately causing the end of the Revolutionary War.
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