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Yorktown

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Noun

1. yorktown

a historic village in southeastern Virginia to the north of Newport News; site of the last battle of the American Revolution

2. siege of yorktown, yorktown

in 1781 the British under Cornwallis surrendered after a siege of three weeks by American and French troops; the surrender ended the American Revolution

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Yorktown

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noun
a village in SE Virginia: scene of the surrender (1781) of the British under Cornwallis to the Americans under Washington at the end of the War of American Independence

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Yorktown

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town in SE Va.: scene of the surrender of Cornwallis to Washington (1781)

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Yorktown

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A village of southeast Virginia on the York River north of Newport News. It was the site of Cornwallis's surrender of the British forces (1781) in the American Revolution. During the Civil War Union troops occupied the town after a siege in 1862.

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