Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun siege_of_yorktown

1 sense of siege of yorktown

Sense 1
Yorktown, siege of 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)
       INSTANCE OF=> siege, besieging, beleaguering, military blockade -- (the action of an armed force that surrounds a fortified place and isolates it while continuing to attack)