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Sword in Hand: The Siege of Yorktown, 1781

October 14, 1781. After dark, French and American columns stormed the last two British redoubts outside Yorktown, bayonets fixed. Five days later, Cornwallis's army marched out and laid down its ar...

The Battle of Saratoga: The Turning Point That Changed the American Revolution

In the autumn of 1777, a British army of nearly 6,000 men advanced south through the forests of upstate New York toward a fortified American position on the Hudson River. What followed across two e...