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Ned Lamont: “And it was there, in Yorktown that America made the stand…”

Featuring: Ned Lamont, Democratic | Governor of Connecticut

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CT250: Connecticut's statewide celebration of American independence

Published | Video Starts at 27:25

And there was a sense that maybe we should stop them in New York, which is sort of a Tory stronghold. And they decided, no, we're going to go to Yorktown. And it was there, in Yorktown that America made the stand that turned the world upside down. And there alongside the French and there, that was the military bands that played at the surrender. The world turned upside down. (27:25–27:33)

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Asserts that the decisive stand in Yorktown was pivotal in the Revolutionary War.

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