Yorktown
a village in SE Virginia: surrender (October 19, 1781) of Cornwallis to Washington in the American Revolution.
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The Yorktown program, in Arlington, is one of 3,000 Best Buddies chapters around the world.
Best Buddies program helps high school students maintain connection during pandemic | Dana Hedgpeth | April 23, 2021 | Washington PostBest Buddies Prom offers so much to so manyAt Yorktown, parents and students said it is a crucial program for those already dealing with the sometimes awkward period of adolescence.
Best Buddies program helps high school students maintain connection during pandemic | Dana Hedgpeth | April 23, 2021 | Washington PostSarah Wilson, a special-education teacher at Yorktown and advisor for the Best Buddies club, said the group helps those with and without disabilities, allowing participants to learn from each other.
Best Buddies program helps high school students maintain connection during pandemic | Dana Hedgpeth | April 23, 2021 | Washington PostJenny Holsinger said her 19-year-old daughter Maddie, who has autism and is a senior at Yorktown, has participated in Best Buddies since her freshman year.
Best Buddies program helps high school students maintain connection during pandemic | Dana Hedgpeth | April 23, 2021 | Washington PostSosuna Woldeyesus, 16, a junior at Yorktown who has autism, said the group “makes people’s lives better” and helps everyone — regardless of any disabilities — to feel included and build friendships.
Best Buddies program helps high school students maintain connection during pandemic | Dana Hedgpeth | April 23, 2021 | Washington Post
Many more people called Guiding Eyes for the Blind in Yorktown, N.Y.
Strangers Rally to Help Blind Man Keep His Guide Dog | Michael Daly | December 19, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThe British still held New York when Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown in October 1781.
Is This the Tavern Where Washington Drank After Beating the British? | William Bryk | November 12, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThe American Revolution was protracted: Five years elapsed between the Declaration of Independence and Yorktown.
Lieutenant-Colonel Abercromby, who had led the only serious sortie from Yorktown, chewed his sword in impotent rage.
Cornwallis himself remained in Yorktown, pleading indisposition but perhaps unable to face the triumph of revolution.
Large groups of people gathered at Yorktown where the boat had been docked and waited for the reply.
Hallowed Heritage: The Life of Virginia | Dorothy M. TorpeyGeneral Cornwallis had taken possession of this house for his headquarters at Yorktown.
Hallowed Heritage: The Life of Virginia | Dorothy M. TorpeyBy September 1781, he had approximately eight thousand soldiers garrisoned on the peninsula at Yorktown.
Hallowed Heritage: The Life of Virginia | Dorothy M. TorpeyThe second death in Company B occurred on the evening of the first day out from Yorktown.
A Raw Recruit's War Experiences | Ansel D. NickersonFrom there we went to Yorktown, expecting to take transportation home, as our term of service had nearly expired.
A Raw Recruit's War Experiences | Ansel D. Nickerson
British Dictionary definitions for Yorktown
/ (ˈjɔːkˌtaʊn) /
a village in SE Virginia: scene of the surrender (1781) of the British under Cornwallis to the Americans under Washington at the end of the War of American Independence
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