… a nation built on the idea of freedom, a nation built on ideals, was worth fighting for. And Virginia was at the center of that wager from the very beginning. It was here, on Virginia soil, at Yorktown, that General George Washington and his allies forced the British to surrender, ending the Revolutionary War. Nearly a century later, when the Civil War came, the bloodiest chapter in our national story, many of its chapters were also written in Virginia. (02:37–02:47)
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Asserts that the British surrendered at Yorktown, Virginia, ending the Revolutionary War.
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