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Yorktown
noun
1. a historic village in southeastern Virginia to the north of Newport News; site of the last battle of the American Revolution
Instance Hypernyms: ↑village, ↑hamlet
Part Holonyms: ↑Virginia, ↑Old Dominion, ↑Old Dominion State, ↑VA
2. in 1781 the British under Cornwallis surrendered after a siege of three weeks by American and French troops; the surrender ended the American Revolution
Syn: ↑siege of Yorktown
Regions: ↑Virginia, ↑Old Dominion, ↑Old Dominion State, ↑VA
Instance Hypernyms: ↑siege, ↑besieging, ↑beleaguering, ↑military blockade
Part Holonyms: ↑American Revolution, ↑American Revolutionary War, ↑War of American Independence, ↑American War of Independence

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Yorktown [Yorktown]
the town in south-east ↑Virginia where the final military campaign of the ↑American Revolution took place. The British Army, led by General Charles Cornwallis, was surrounded there in 1781 by 16 000 American and French soldiers. The ↑surrender of Cornwallis to General George ↑Washington ended the war.

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