Where the U.S.A. began

Yorktown.  The final battle for Independence happened here.  It was the Americans/French against the British.  General Cornwallis held the town of Yorktown to hold it as a last effort to hold the colonies.  He dug trenches all around.

But Generals Washington and Lafayette circled in and beat the English back.  The pictures show how both sides trenched in.  And, in the movie, "Patriot" with Mel Gibson, you could look down from he hill of the last English fortifications down where the ships were in the York River.

It took 2 years after the Battle for talks in Paris to acknowledge the United States as a seperate country.