Have you ever seen the movie "The Patriot" with Mel Gibson? Well, this movie was based on this piece of American history. Just like Jamestown, Yorktown was cool! We took the Yorktown Battlefield tour. Initially we thought it would be something that we walked around but it ended up being a couple hour tour that you drove around. It worked out though because the beginnings of Tropical Storm Hannah had arrived and it was very wet. As you drive around, you get out of the car and walk around different areas. Now, during the war, the soldiers had to dig trenches. They dug day and night. Many of the original trenches are still there and were used during both the Revolutionary War
and the Civil War. In the Park services building, they have oringinal cannons, desks of General George Washington, tents that George Washington used while planning his next advances. Very interesting stuff. At the end of the tour and after walking around different battle fields you end at Surrender Field where General Cornwallis surrendered to General George Washington. There are two very interesting quotes on the walls there. From Cornwallis: " I have the mortification to inform your Excellency that I have been forced to give up the posts of York and Glouce
ster, and to surrender the troops under my command, by capitulation on the 19th instant, as prisoners of war to the combined forces of America and France." Quite in contrast from Cornwallis is George Washington: "I have the honor to inform Congress, that reduction of the British Army under the command of Lord Cornwallis, is most happily effected."
Have you ever seen the movie "The Patriot" with Mel Gibson? Well, this movie was based on this piece of American history. Just like Jamestown, Yorktown was cool! We took the Yorktown Battlefield tour. Initially we thought it would be something that we walked around but it ended up being a couple hour tour that you drove around. It worked out though because the beginnings of Tropical Storm Hannah had arrived and it was very wet. As you drive around, you get out of the car and walk around different areas. Now, during the war, the soldiers had to dig trenches. They dug day and night. Many of the original trenches are still there and were used during both the Revolutionary War 
and the Civil War. In the Park services building, they have oringinal cannons, desks of General George Washington, tents that George Washington used while planning his next advances. Very interesting stuff. At the end of the tour and after walking around different battle fields you end at Surrender Field where General Cornwallis surrendered to General George Washington. There are two very interesting quotes on the walls there. From Cornwallis: " I have the mortification to inform your Excellency that I have been forced to give up the posts of York and Glouce
ster, and to surrender the troops under my command, by capitulation on the 19th instant, as prisoners of war to the combined forces of America and France." Quite in contrast from Cornwallis is George Washington: "I have the honor to inform Congress, that reduction of the British Army under the command of Lord Cornwallis, is most happily effected."
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