Yorktown Victory Center

The vacation picture bombardment continues. These are from the Yorktown Victory Center which has a working replica of a small colonial era family farm, and a canon demonstration.

What’s with the zig zag fences?

This is the family house. Tiny, yes, but the kitchen is a separate building.

Everywhere we went; checkers and chess.

Inside the kitchen.

They were making soup for lunch.

They had chickens. Lots of chickens.

Vegetable garden.

They had turkeys too.

And of course, tobacco.

Off to Phillip Morris perhaps?

Now on to the cannon demonstration. They had a mortar, which they fired, and a light gun, which sure didn’t look light to me.

Ka-BOOM!

The American Revolution

I’ve been to the place where the American Revolutionary War began, Old North Bridge in Concord, MA…

I’ve been to the place where the American Revolutionary War ended, Yorktown, VA…

Yorktown Battlefield

The pile of Virginia vacation pics continues. These are from the battlefield known as the battle of Yorktown. This is the place that General Cornwallis surrendered and the fighting in the American Revolution ended.

Yorktown was mostly a siege, with the Colonials and the French entrenched around the British troops.

According to the info we got on site, most of the nastiest fighting took place in two mini forts, called redoubts. The French and Colonial trenches were separated by redoubts nine and ten. The Americans took one and the French took the other. Then the two lines were joined and the only hope for the English was to try crossing the York river to their rear. They tried, but the weather didn’t cooperate and they lost their boats. At that point they were just plain screwed.