G. British Outer Works. Cornwallis constructed several positions between the headwaters of Yorktown and Wormley Creeks as a part of his outer line. One of these has been partly reconstructed and is visible from the tour road. Another is an original position which remains undisturbed. A spur road from the main tour route gives access to it in the area known as “Long Neck.”
14. GRAND FRENCH BATTERY.
This position was the largest and one of the most effective in the First Allied Siege Line. A part of it, including gun platforms and magazines (powder and ammunition storage points), has been reconstructed. The artillery now mounted here (a trench mortar, siege cannon, mortars, and howitzers) are types used in the Revolutionary period. Some of the pieces were actually used at Yorktown during the siege.
15. NATIONAL CEMETERY.
Established in 1866, this is chiefly a burial ground for Union soldiers killed in the vicinity in the Civil War.
16. SECOND ALLIED SIEGE LINE.
This is another point on the same encircling line that came to include British Redoubts Nos. 9 and 10.
17. YORKTOWN.
The tour now enters Yorktown proper where the British army was encamped and in which it made its stand. The old Civil War line rings the town today and under it is the British line of 1781.
