YORK — Although known for its pivotal role in the Revolutionary War, Yorktown Battlefield’s Memorial Day activities this weekend will focus on the role the town played in the Civil War as a ...

Civil War Trails Inc. announced in May that Chris ... Brown grew up just outside Yorktown Battlefield, a unit of Colonial National Historical Park, and said he spent a lot of time exploring ...

Deep-sea explorers say they have captured detailed images of three iconic shipwrecks from World War II's Battle of Midway ... Navy's Kaga and the USS Yorktown. The Yorktown was first located ...

NOAA Ocean Exploration sent a remotely operated camera inside the USS Yorktown on ... during World War II before it was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine during the Battle of Midway in June ...

what makes Yorktown Battlefield so special? For starters, it's the site of the 1781 siege and surrender of British troops to General George Washington in the Revolutionary War. And second ...

YORKTOWN, Va. (WAVY) — Yorktown is celebrating the 241st anniversary of America’s Revolutionary War victory with Yorktown Day. On Oct. 19, 1781, British troops under General Charles Cornwallis ...