Vacation to Virginia: Day 4.1 Yorktown Battlefield

Day 4 began with a tour of the Yorktown battlefield. While waiting for the tour to begin...

we hung out with the troops...

Jacob and George (Washington) had a meeting of the minds...

we boarded a ship suspended inside the museum...

And then the moment Jacob "History Buff" Tijerina had been waiting for...we began our tour of the battlefield.

The guide started the tour by explaining the different cannons that had been used during the battle...

Then the guide lead us to a section on the actual battlefield and pointed out the redoubts and flags in the distance while she explained the key points that led to our success (with assistance from the French) in the battle.

Then, we took the battlefield car audio tour, which apparently works best with a cassette player that you can take with you as you exit the car so that you can stop and play the "cassette" at all of the appropriate times.

On the tour...

Jacob tried to break into a redoubt...

Jen hoped to be invited into the Moore house to witness the negotiations (see explanation of Moore House in picture below).

We ended our car tour by stopping at Surrender Field.

View of Surrender Field

Trophies of War

Enscription on a trophy


Cornwallis' surrender

After working up an appetite we headed to Yorktown for lunch at the Rivah Café where we shared 2 mouthwatering burgers.

Jen waiting for the burgers.