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.

But when the Bulldogs team bus pulled into the parking lot and DesRosier and Badgett got their first look at the USS Yorktown ...

Americans went to war to win their independence from Great Britain. Just weeks after the outbreak of fighting at Lexington ...

The Citadel wrestling team captain Ben Haubert will take part in the Showdown on the Yorktown Friday night in Charleston ...

But there’s another reason to remember Yorktown today: it shows that alliances were crucial to building America. With war, conflicts, and hostilities gripping multiple continents, world events ...

Andrew Abeyounis, a Grafton High School history teacher, has been selected by National History Day to research stories of ...

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 ...

One, Virginia’s Thomas Nelson Jr., asked George Washington to bombard his house during the battle of Yorktown. (It had been ...

YORKTOWN — Historic Grace Episcopal Church in Yorktown held its annual Veterans Day Service On Monday, Nov. 11. According to ...

Yorktown volleyball is back in the IHSAA state championship. How the Tigers battled through adversity to give its seniors one ...