New York & the Mid-Atlantic Trips 2 - Full PDF eBook

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1 Yorktown

Virginia’s Historic

Triangle consists of

the towns of Yorktown,

Jamestown and

Williamsburg, all

arranged in a rough

triangular shape on

the wooded Virginia

peninsula, a geographic

appendage known for

tidal inlets and marshes,

if not the originality of

its name.

Yorktown was the site

of the American victory

of George Washington

over the British Lord

Cornwalllis. The event

Peninsula to

the Piedmont

You.stand.on.the.cusp.of.Monticello.and.look.out..

There:.the.Blue.Ridge.mountains,.and.there:.the.

Piedmont.plateau.meandering.off.to.a.topographic.

pancake.intercut.by.the.squiggly.blue.waters.of.the.

Elizabeth.and.James.Rivers..And.spread.over.all.of.

this:.the.place.where.America.was.founded.(well,.

by.the.British)..Where.America.governed.herself..

And.where.she.won.her.independence.

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