Meaning Of The Word Yorktown

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Yorktown in American English
town in SE Va.: scene of the surrender of Cornwallis to Washington (1781)

Yorktown in British English
noun: a village in SE Virginia: scene of the surrender (1781) of the British under Cornwallis to the Americans under Washington at the end of the War of American Independence

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