Word: yorktown
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rockefeller was there inspecting his costly, patriotic enterprise of restoring all the old buildings to the appearance they had when Lord Cornwallis surrendered to General George Washington in nearby Yorktown. The visiting celebrity greeted the fabulous benefactor with a nice mixture of thanks, congratulations and vivacity; she suggested one change in the plans, which Mr. Rockefeller promptly adopted. She hoped she would see him at the Governor's Ball. But some other necessity in his vast philanthropic domain recalled Mr. Rockefeller to New York. Lady Astor moved on through the State, marvelling that she had never seen that section...
...protest with "the grand Chief whose wigwam is Buckingham Palace." Last week they arrived in London and set about securing an audience with "the biggest Chief of all." The Duke of York signified his "sincere pleasure and grateful thanks" by accepting invitations to become the Honorary President of the Yorktown World Forum,* Yorktown Country Club and the Yorktown Historical Society. The acceptance of these invitations was somehow or other construed to mean that the Duke would visit Yorktown, Va., next year, but this was officially denied in London, although both the Duke and Duchess hoped they would at some future...
...Yorktown World Forum was formed to perpetuate the Yorktown battlefield where Lord Cornwallis surrendered. British Ambassador Sir Esmé Howard, speaking recently, referred to a visit to the battlefield: "I felt that all bitterness, thank God, was past between us. I felt that just as our heritage of poets and sailors, of philosophers, lawgivers and statesmen belongs to you, so the greatness of your people is a greatness of which I, as an Englishman, have a right to be proud...
Peace. In Manhattan, Sir Esme Howard, British Ambassador to the U. S., concluded a speech on the Battle of Yorktown: "Thank God, all feeling of bitterness is forever past between us." In Pittsburgh, before the Carnegie Institute, Attorney General Sargent began : "The desire for peace must grow from within." Charles E. Hughes, about to return to Bermuda, was clamorously hailed by the New York Chamber of Commerce, "the greatest statesman in the world." Speaking of the U. S. abroad he said: "It would be unfortunate, indeed, if American capital stood aloof...
...Ayacucho was fought on Dec. 9, 1824, between Spanish forces and an army organized by the great Bolivar but led at the time by the patriot General Sucre. The victory went to the revolutionists and today Peruvians regard the battle much as U. S. citizens regard the battle of Yorktown...