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Yorktown Victory Monument

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authorized the creation of the monument, although it would not be until another 100 years when it was finally built.
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Colonial National Historical Park | HISTORIC YORKTOWN
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Colonial National Historical Park
Battle of Yorktown
37°14′00″N 76°30′17″W / 37.23333°N 76.50472°W / 37.23333; -76.50472
Colonial National Historical Park
Yorktown
Virginia
Richard Morris Hunt

Colonial National Historical Park
Yorktown
Virginia
1781 victory at Yorktown
France
American Revolution
England
American Revolutionary War
Richard Morris Hunt
John Quincy Adams Ward
Oskar J. W. Hansen
Continental Congress








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