Definition: Meaning of, Yorktown in English to English dictionary.
Pronunciation:/ ˈyôrktoun /
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a town in Virginia, US, where the last battle of the AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR and the final SURRENDER of the British to the Americans took place in 1781
in 1781 the British under Cornwallis surrendered after a siege of three weeks by American and French troops; the surrender ended the American Revolution