Lieutenant-Colonel Abercromby, who had led the only serious sortie from Yorktown, chewed his sword in impotent rage.
Washington in Victory|Piers Brendon|October 10, 2008|DAILY BEAST
Cornwallis himself remained in Yorktown, pleading indisposition but perhaps unable to face the triumph of revolution.
Washington in Victory|Piers Brendon|October 10, 2008|DAILY BEAST
The battle of Yorktown followed, as you know, and Cornwallis and his army were made prisoners.
The Go Ahead Boys and the Mysterious Old House|Ross Kay
Mr. Blaine's address at Yorktown (I had accompanied him there) was greatly admired.
Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie|Andrew Carnegie
At eleven o'clock we found ourselves at Yorktown, encamping on the grounds where many a soldier had fought.
History of the Sixteenth Connecticut Volunteers|B. F. Blakeslee
From Williamsburg we drive on to Yorktown, now a small village.
Across the Continent by the Lincoln Highway|Effie Price Gladding
These had been hastily removed from the Yorktown, and dragged up there by Captain Tucker on the previous day.
Three Months in the Southern States, April-June 1863|Arthur J. L. (Lieut.-Col.) Fremantle
British Dictionary definitions for Yorktown
Yorktown
/ (ˈjɔːkˌtaʊn) /
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