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The Battle of Yorktown in Virginia took place in 1781. For more than five years, Americans had been fighting for their independence from Britain in the American Revolution. This book tells the story of the famous Revolutionary battle and looks at the events that led up to the moment when the Americans and their French allies laid siege to the British army at Yorktown, forcing it to surrender.

Tells the story of the Seneca Falls Women's Rights Convention, held in 1848 as the first organized effort to demand equality for women, including the right to vote, and discusses how the campaign was carried on by succeeding generations until 1920 when the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified.