Word: yorktown
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...linen campaign tent, sleeping shelter of General George Washington when he was in the field, was acquired for $10,000 (part of it donated anonymously to the U.S.) by the National Park Service, which will pitch it in a historical park in Yorktown, Va. The sellers: four Virginia ladies, all heiresses of General Robert E. Lee. In the line of inheritance, the old tent went first to Washington's widow Martha, later to her grandson, George Washington Parke Custis, and from him to his daughter Mary Anne Custis Lee, wife of the great Confederate commander...
...Soryu (Hiryu, the fourth, survived to be wrecked by an evening raid). In two minutes the whole course of the Pacific war changed. That night, its air striking power destroyed, the Japanese invasion armada turned in "emptiness, cheerlessness and chagrin" and limped for home. (The U.S. Navy lost the Yorktown, one of the three carriers that it was able to muster for the great battle...
...Painted. At war's end, Peale's gallery of more than 30 portraits of Revolutionary heroes brought him as many commissions as he could handle. One of them, a painting of Washington at Yorktown, which still hangs in the Maryland House of Delegates (see color page), is one of the best of Washington at his prime. Peale added the Marylanders' hero, hard-riding Colonel Tilghman, holding the articles of surrender, and Peale's great friend Lafayette. In the middle ground, "to tell the story at first sight," Peale introduced the French and U.S. battle flags...
...battle. Make it a campaign or a whole war and the need becomes almost compulsive. In Sir Henry Clinton's case, the explanation is one that ought to interest every U.S. citizen. And who was Sir Henry? Most schoolboys know that Lord Cornwallis surrendered the British army at Yorktown, but few know that Sir Henry, the British commander in chief, left New York on the very day of the surrender with a rescuing army...
This week the outcome of the new battle of Yorktown was still in doubt. The Park Service hoped that Hansen would come around; if he did not, he could be sued for contract violation. Hansen, for his part, hoped public pressure would change Washington's mind. If not, he would rather call off the deal and give the Government back the $20,000 it has paid him so far. In that case, Hansen says, he might give his Liberty to President Syngman Rhee of Korea, whom he regards as "a champion like Patrick Henry and Thomas Jefferson...