1 2 [transitive] sit somebody + adv./prep. to put somebody in a sitting position He lifted the child and sat her on the wall. 2  She sat him down in front of the fire with a hot drink. 3  3 [intransitive] to be in a particular place + adv./prep. 4  A large bus was sitting outside.
The British Surrender at Yorktown October 19, 1781. America declared its independence in 1776, but it took another five years to win freedom from the British. That day came on October 19, 1781, when the British General Charles Cornwallis surrendered his troops in Yorktown, Virginia. General Cornwallis brought 8,000 British troops to Yorktown. They expected help from British ships sent from New York.
Battle of Yorktown. Battle of Yorktown Definition: The Battle of Yorktown was a military conflict between the Kingdom of Great Britain and its thirteen colonies in North America during the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783). The year and date that the Battle of Yorktown took place on Tuesday, October 09, 1781. The battlefield in which the British and American Forces fought during the Battle of Yorktown was located in Yorktown, Virginia. The Battle of Yorktown ended in victory for the American colonists.