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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1981
Page
11
Commemoration marks 200 years since the 1781 Yorktown victory at Virginia. A four day event features parades exhibits entertainment and speeches with reenactors. More than 3000 visitors from across the country join in period dress and 1000 camp followers accompany troops at the site.
Thirteen year old Douglass Deakin will spend about a week in Yorktown reenacting a marcher boy from 1781. He will forego baths, TV, brushing, fast foods and schooling to live as a camp follower and helper to troops, sleeping in a straw bed and cooking with his mother.
The American War of Independence began in 1775 and six years of hardship preceded Yorktown. British defeat came from superior American and French training, naval trapping by French fleets, and superior numbers. American and French forces totaled about 17,000 to 8,000 for Britain.
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