The film recounts the pivotal events leading to the British surrender at Yorktown during the American Revolutionary War. It details the strategic maneuvers of British General Cornwallis and the ...

With so many spots devoted to Colonial and Revolutionary history in the Williamsburg area, what makes Yorktown Battlefield so special? For starters, it's the site of the 1781 siege and surrender ...

Commissioned in the early nineteenth century, these grand canvases depict signal events in the life of the nation, including Columbus’s arrival in the New World, the embarkation of the Pilgrims, ...

George Washington fired the first cannon at Yorktown. (Courtesy of GBH/NOVA ... weeks of constant cannon fire to force Cornwallis' surrender behind these wooden-wicker earthworks.