1) Beleaguering 2) Besieging 3) Last battle of Revolution 4) Military blockade 5) Siege 6) Washington victory
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[Tulsa] Yorktown is a historic district in Tulsa, Oklahoma. It is bordered by 16th and 17th Streets on the north, 20th Street on the south, Lewis Avenue on the east, and Victor/Wheeling Avenues on the west. The Yorktown Neighborhood includes 19 blocks of single family residences. Composed of eight separate additions, the district does not e...
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(from the article `Midway, Battle of`) ...and one heavy cruiser. In the late afternoon U.S. planes disabled the fourth heavy carrier (scuttled the next morning), but its aircraft had badly ... ...carrier Shoho and a cruiser. The next day Japanese aircraft sank the U.S. carrier Lexington and damaged the carrier Yorktown, while U.S. plane...
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The USS Yorktown was an American aircraft carrier of 19900 tons displacement launched in 1936 and sunk in the Pacific in July 1942. The USS Yorktown carried a complement of 2072 including flying personnel and 81 aircraft, though provision was provided to carry over 100 aircraft. She was powered by nine Babcock and Wilcox Express type boilers provid...
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n] - American Revolution (1781): the British under Cornwallis surrendered after a siege of three weeks by American and French troops
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noun in 1781 during the American Revolution the British under Cornwallis surrendered after a siege of three weeks by American and French troops
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a village in SE Virginia: surrender (October 19, 1781) of Cornwallis to Washington in the American Revolution.
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