Word: yorktown
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Yorktown, Va., the U. S. S. Arkansas stretched her gray length at anchor in the York River. Ashore, seven companies of Marines and blue-jackets stood by, while two artillery regiments from Fort Eustis saluted the flag with heavy guns. Three military bands struck up. The troops marched. Officials viewed and reviewed. Among the speechmakers were: Governor Trinkle of Virginia, Brigadier General William R. Smith (representing President Coolidge), George A. Elliott of the Delaware Historical Society, Brigadier General R. Allyn Lewis of the Old Guard of New York, Captain Charles Nungesser, famed French...
...remembered, all were celebrating, Oct. 19, 1781, the day on which Lord Cornwallis surrendered his sword to General George Washington and the American Revolution came to an end at Yorktown...
...afternoon of Oct. 16, 1781, was cloudy. The sun sank sullen and red. With the night, came winds and rain. Stretched in a semicircle about Yorktown, American troops under General Washington lay in their earthworks, some putting back into service the guns of two redoubts that had been captured and spiked by a British assault under Lieutenant Colonel Abercrombie in the forenoon but recovered later in a counterassault. About 300 yards away lay the British, in the inner circle of Yorktown's earthwork defenses. In the town, Lord Charles Cornwallis took counsel with his officers. North of them...
...next afternoon, the British troops, decked out in new uniforms but with their colors sheathed, marched out of Yorktown between the French and American ranks lined up on both sides of the Hampton road. The British bands played an old British march, The World Turned Upside Down. In a field just off the road, a squadron of French Hussars were drawn up in a wide circle, into which the British were directed to march. Came the commands : "Present arms! Lay down arms! Put off swords and cartridge boxes!" Then the British marched back into Yorktown to rest before being sent...
...Passed a bill to lend to William and Mary College two British cannon captured at Yorktown. ¶ Agreed to a bill, previously passed, but amended by the Senate, to give to Hawaii the right to participate with the States in aid furnished by the Federal Government for road building, vocational training, maternity and child hygiene, farm loans. ¶ Passed a bill providing for incorporation of the G. A. R. ¶ Passed, 228 to 142, the McKenzie bill authorizing the acceptance of Henry Ford's offer for Muscle Shoals. ¶ Passed a resolution calling for an investigation of the Shipping...