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...Passed a bill creating a Colonial National Monument comprised of lands yet to be determined, but including parts of Yorktown Battlefield and lands & buildings in and around Williamsburg, Va. ¶ Passed the bill directing the Secretary of the Interior to investigate and report on the advisability of creating an upper Mississippi National Park...
When war was declared Graves enlisted almost at once, got a commission in the famed line regiment, Royal Welch Fusiliers, which had fought at Lexington and Bunker Hill: the only blot on its scutcheon was the surrender at Yorktown. In the Royal Welch the atmosphere was much the same as at Charterhouse: the regular officers resented and despised "outsiders." but discipline was perfect, morale high; they were pretty fighters...
...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...