In this picture I see men fighting over a fort.
I do not see cannons but they must be close.
These men are not in a friendly mood.
The men in the blue are trying to eliminate the men in the red.
The men in the red are also trying to eliminate the men in the blue.
Yesterday, both sides were strategizing how to kill each other and win the battle.
Today they putting those plans into action.
Each man in this battle wants the other to surrender.
Both the sets of men, red and blue, used to be citizens of the same country.
“War” by Alexander Sorenti-Burns
Full Time RVing to Yorktown, Virginia
The cannon display at Yorktown was cool!
Yorktown was my least favorite battle before I got to learn about it firsthand by going there when full time RVing.
I thought it was a battle for nothing until I went there myself.
Lots of kids only read about these things in books but because we are full time RVing, my family and I got a tour of the entire battlefield of Yorktown.
We even saw the house where the entire British army surrendered to General George Washington on October 19, 1781.
Why The Battle of Yorktown Was Fought
First, the British Navy and the French Navy fought on the open ocean to stop Cornwallis’ troops from escaping and getting to the ocean.
General Cornwallis, the British commander, wanted to get to the ocean to reinforce his troops after being defeated in the Carolinas and at the Battle of Cowpens. I wrote about this in my last full time RVing post 🙂 Read more »
June 26th, 2012 
Jen 
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