Editing Yorktown, Virginia (section)

==Honors==
[[File:Yorktown monument1.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|This [[Yorktown Victory Monument|monument]] at Yorktown celebrating victory in the [[American Revolutionary War]] was installed in 1884. It has a total height of 29.87 metres (98 ft)]]
Yorktown and the nearby area are significant to the early history of the United States. [[Colonial National Historical Park]], which contains and preserves [[Yorktown National Battlefield]] and [[Yorktown National Cemetery]], is located on the outskirts of town. The battlefield has many of the [[earthworks (engineering)|earthworks]] dug by the [[siege|besieging]] American and French forces.

The [[Yorktown Victory Monument]], commemorating the victory, the alliance with France that brought it about, and the resulting peace with Great Britain after the war, is located just outside the current town. Designed by [[New York City]] architect [[Richard Morris Hunt]], the monument was installed in 1884 and topped by a figure of Liberty sculpted by [[John Quincy Adams Ward]]. That element was destroyed by lightning in 1942. It was replaced in 1957 by a figure of Victory by [[Oskar J. W. Hansen]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=1271U8303784U.2866&profile=ariall&source=~!siartinventories&view=subscriptionsummary&uri=full=3100001~!305055~!31&ri=1&aspect=Keyword&menu=search&ipp=20&spp=20&staffonly=&term=richard+morris+hunt&index=.GW&uindex=&aspect=Keyword&menu=search&ri=1|title=Yorktown Victory Monument, (sculpture).}}</ref> A memorial to the French war dead of the Yorktown campaign is being planned for construction at the French cemetery on the site of the battle.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nps.gov/york/historyculture/french-army-casualties01.htm|title=French Army Casualties at Yorkown}}</ref>