The film recounts the pivotal events leading to the British surrender at Yorktown during the American Revolutionary War. It details the strategic maneuvers of British General Cornwallis and the ...

"What we know about the barracks from historical documentation is that, in August 1776, just a month after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the Commonwealth of Virginia ordered the ...

In the Second Battle of Trenton, the Continental Army fights 8,000 British and Hessian troops under General Cornwallis. The army repelled Cornwallis’s attacks along Assunpink Creek until dusk.

British General Charles Cornwallis ordered the burning of a Continental Army barracks in Colonial Williamsburg in 1781. What he hoped to destroy forever was recently found by archaeologists ...

Color print of formal military surrounder ceremony. Mounted American and French officers in blue uniforms with gold braid form lines on right and left, flanking General Benjamin Lincoln (originally ...