Yorktown Battlefield — Colonial National Historical Park

The preserved battlefield of the October 1781 siege that ended the American Revolution. The NPS site includes the British defensive lines, American and French siege parallels, the surviving earthworks of Redoubts 9 and 10 (stormed October 14, 1781), and a self-guided driving tour of the 7-mile battlefield. The Visitor Center houses Cornwallis's headquarters tent and a reconstruction of the 18th-century warship Yorktown. The site conveys the methodical, engineering-intensive nature of 18th-century siege warfare — this was not a dramatic pitched battle but a systematic reduction of a fortified position over three weeks.