siege of yorktown

Noun siege of yorktown has 1 sense

• siege of yorktown(n = noun.act) yorktown - in 1781 the British under Cornwallis surrendered after a siege of three weeks by American and French troops; the surrender ended the American Revolution;
is a kind of beleaguering, besieging, military blockade, siege
is a part of american revolution, american revolutionary war, american war of independence, war of american independence