The latest Museum of Culpeper History marker documents Marquis de Lafayette’s march through Culpeper during the war with ...

trapping General Cornwallis and his soldiers in Yorktown by August 1781,” leading to “the Patriot victory at Yorktown, which ...

It was at Yorktown that inspiration for this column occurred ... Without the means of escape, Cornwallis surrendered in 1781.

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.

More than 5,000 white-coated French troops under the command of Comte de Rochambeau arrived in America in 1780, more than two ...

Much beloved by the French, a bronze statue of Franklin now overlooks the Square de Yorktown, so named for the battle that ...

In 1781, General Washington’s troops were running low on supplies ... when he learned that British forces under Lord Cornwallis were building a naval base on Virginia’s Yorktown Peninsula. Washington ...

YORKTOWN— Bring your dancing shoes and a revolutionary spirit to keep in step with ballroom dances of the 18th century during ...

Tom Chesshyre visits Mount Vernon, the preserved home of America's first president, overlooking the Potomac River, 16 miles south of the White House.

All remembered, all were celebrating, Oct. 19, 1781, the day on which Lord Cornwallis surrendered his sword to General George Washington and the American Revolution came to an end at Yorktown.

EASTON — One of George Washington’s most trusted men has roots in Talbot County, and this week he was celebrated by a local chapter of the Maryland Society of the Sons of the American ...

In their letter to the FEC, Trump’s lawyers colourfully compared Labour’s mobilisation for Harris to British efforts to upend George Washington’s troops at the Battle of Yorktown in 1781 ...