As a Left Coaster, I'd like to take my kids to DC this winter. While there I'd like to visit some battlefields. Probably won't have time to do a big tour, but I figure bopping up to Gettysburg would be worthwhile to see the site of the most important battle of the war. I trip to Baltimore to see Ft. McHenry would cover the War of 1812. What's the best Revolutionary War battlefield near DC to see?
“……Colonial National Historical Park (NHP) administers two of the most historically significant sites in English North America. Historic Jamestowne, the first permanent English settlement in North America in 1607, jointly administered with the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities, and Yorktown Battlefield, the final major battle of the American Revolutionary War in 1781.
These two sites represent the beginning and end of English colonial America. Situated on the Virginia Peninsula, these sites are connected by the 23 mile scenic Colonial Parkway. Colonial NHP also includes Green Spring, the 17th century plantation home of Virginia's colonial governor, Sir William Berkeley, and the Cape Henry Memorial, which marks the approximate site of the first landing of the Jamestown colonists on the Atlantic Coast in April of 1607. ……...”
AND a personal favorite of mine in Charlottsville VA..Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello
Located in the Virginia Piedmont, Monticello is about two miles southeast of Charlottesville and approximately 125 miles from Washington, D.C.; 110 miles from Williamsburg, Virginia; and 70 miles from Richmond, Virginia