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Yorktown
1986 Averell Harriman, statesman, dies in Yorktown Heights, New York at 94

1962 Savannah, world's 1st nuclear-powered ship, completes maiden voyage from Yorktown, Va, to Savannah, Ga

1943 1st battle of Essex/new Yorktown: U.S. assault on Marcus Island

1942 USS Yorktown sinks near Midway Island

1942 U.S. aircraft carrier Yorktown leaves Pearl Harbor

1862 Yorktown, Virginia - McClellan halted his troop before town as it is full of armed torpedoes left by CS Brig general Gabrial Rains

1862 Siege of Yorktown, Virginia

1862 Battle of Yorktown begins

1862 Naval Engagement at Hampton Roads, Virginia CSS Virginia, Jamestown and Yorktown vs USS Cumberland, Congress and Monitor

1781 Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown at 2 PM; Revolutionary War ends

1781 Cornwallis defeated at Yorktown

1781 Washington takes Yorktown

1781 Americans and French begin siege of Cornwallis at Yorktown; last battle of Revolutionary War

1781 9,000 American forces and 7,000 French forces begin siege of Yorktown

1781 English army under general Cornwallis occupies Yorktown, Virginia

1691 Yorktown Virginia founded



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