We visited Yorktown last year doing a history week at Williamsburg. I was afraid the kids would be bored, but they loved it. They ran all over the trenches, redoubts and artillery emplacements. The whole family was mustered into the Virgina militia and learned the rudiments of drill and musket fire.
There's a nice audiotape self-guided tour of Yorktown battlefield. I was amazed how compact the final British lines were. My recollection is that Hamilton advanced with unloaded weapons so no one could give away the attack by firing, and then stormed the redoubt in a bayonet charge. Gallant stuff.
Visiting the historic triangle in Virginia just makes you proud to be an American.
Of course, we couldn't have trapped Corwallis if the French hadn't kept the British fleet away. I guess they weren't always putzes.
Yeah, but the debt was paid in full in 1918 and 1944.