Five Things You Didn’t Know About The Battle of Yorktown
The Battle of Yorktown ended the American Revolutionary War, but what have we forgotten about it?
5 min readOct 19, 2021
On the morning of October 17th, 1781, a drummer boy, clad in red, mounted the parapet surrounding the British encampment at Yorktown. It’s unknown whether anyone heard his drum over the sound of booming…
