Monument to the Alliance and Victory

Yorktown Monument Commissioners , 1881

R. M. Hunt, Architect, Chairman

Henry Van Brunt, Architect,

J. Q. A. Ward, Sculptor

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Oskar J. W. Hansen, Sculptor of Liberty, 1957

Front of Monument:

At York on October 19 1781, after a ...

The Onward Rush to Victory or Defeat

Sgt. William Andrews, 1st Georgia Regiment

As the battle escalated, Union Gen. Edwin Sumner moved the Second Corps across Antietam Creek and into the battle. The swift waters of the Antietam and the difficult terrain separated the three divisions in Sumner's ...

The Washington-Rochambeau Route to Victory

On August 14, 1781, Generals Washington and Rochambeau received news that a large French fleet under the command of Admiral de Grasse was headed for the Chesapeake Bay carrying 3,000 French soldiers. There the British general, Cornwallis, was encamped with ...