Yorktown, capital of York county, Virginia, on the York River, 10 miles from its mouth. Pop. 250. Here Lord Cornwallis surrendered to Washington in 1781; and here the Confederates, who had fortified the place, were besieged in 1862 by McClellan, and compelled to evacuate it.
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