Siege of Yorktown

Discover 10 of the biggest comebacks in military history, from the Battle of Saratoga to the English defeating the Spanish Armada.

General Washington led 20,000 American and French troops to victory at Valley Forge.

Shots fired by British soldiers in the streets of Boston in 1770 would spark the American Revolution.

In 1773, a group of colonists protested 13 years of increasing British oppression by attacking merchant ships in Boston Harbor.